Plants are home to a diverse array of microorganisms that support their growth and help them adapt to environmental stress—of ...

The film discusses the essential needs for plant growth, highlighting the importance of water, light, minerals, air, and warmth. It presents various experiments demonstrating how these elements affect ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

Chinese space authorities say the experiments could support future long missions by reducing reliance on food supplies sent ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around plants—could help improve soil health, boost crop yields, and restore degraded ...

The Trichoderma Associated Space Tomato Inoculation Experiment is a study where researchers are investigating tomato plant growth patterns in a microgravity environment, project co-investigator and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers who manipulate lignin, a molecular fiber that allows plants to grow tall and transport water, unexpectedly discovered its synthesis has more far-reaching effects on ...

Thomas Pesquet: This is what Columbus looks like at night now that all our experiments have arrived! The pink light is not for our evening mood, it’s for a plant growth experiment, as it improves the ...

Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually it’s conditions like heat and drought that lead to this stress, and when they’re stressed, plants might not grow as large or produce as ...

AMES, Iowa – Ludovico Cademartiri had what seemed like an impossibly demanding list of requirements for his lab equipment. The Iowa State University assistant professor of materials science and ...