Plants lengthen and bend to secure access to sunlight. Despite observing this phenomenon for centuries, scientists do not fully understand it. Now, scientists have discovered that two plant factors -- ...

Tsering et al. show that in pants, HSP90 acts as a positive regulator of auxin transport by providing steady-state levels of ABCB transport capacity in an action that isorchestrated by its ...

Nitrogen is one the most essential nutrients for plants. Its availability in the soil plays a major role in plant growth and development, thereby affecting agricultural productivity. Scientists were ...

The Plant Growth and Phenotyping Facility at the University of Wyoming is an innovative research hub located on the 5 th floor of the Science Initiative Building in the northwest section of the ...

The idea of music boosting plant growth has been around for many years, but a new study has found that monotonous noise stimulates a type of fungus that improves the growth of plants. In a paper in ...

Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn't always have to be the case. A new study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant ...

[GreatScott!] was bummed to see his greenhouse be empty and lifeless in winter. So, he set out to take the greenhouse home with him. Well, at least, a small part of it. First, he decided to produce ...

Plant notching is simply putting a small cut in the trunk of the plant to encourage the growth of branches. Here's how to do it correctly. Sometimes houseplants need a little bit of encouragement to ...