Sebastian Cocioba’s clapboard house on Long Island doesn’t look much like a cutting-edge plant biology lab. Then you step inside and peer down the hallway to see a small nook with just enough standing ...

Duke researchers discovered a relationship between a plant’s genes, microbiome and autoimmunity, offering potential applications in resisting climate change and improving human gut health. The study, ...

Matt Stata spends his days in a Michigan State University plant biology laboratory. His passion for growing, however, doesn’t end when he hangs up his lab coat. When the postdoctoral student goes home ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a downside to this protective mechanism: the plant's ...

Bruce Kohorn, Bowdoin's Linnean Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, has published a new paper on plant cell wall adhesion with a string of coauthors—all of them recent Bowdoin students. The article ...

A systems perspective frames the next frontier in plant sciences. Moreover, network science aids in translating the complexity of a system into a biological message and enables us to discover novel ...

Wolfgang Busch is a professor of biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where he also serves as the executive director of the Harnessing Plants Initiative. He ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Reading textbooks. Taking notes. Pop quizzes. Research papers. An experiment or two. Those are often the first, and only, things that come to mind when you imagine a college biology ...

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