Experts want to combat new species of plants that are moving around within the United States, and coming from around the ...

Botany news. Read about the latest research on experimental crops, dramatic changes in forest growth, ancient flowering plants and more.

MOUNT IDA (AP) — The teeming plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the U.S ...

The main beef of those lamenting the decline of botany is not that people don’t love plants or value them, but that we’re losing taxonomists. I have some sympathy for this point of view.

Botany Class Pursues Plants in a Varied and Changing World. Students in the Plant Ecophysiology course, taught by Professor of Biology Barry Logan and Laboratory Instructor Jaret Reblin, pose for a ...

It’s just one recent example in a relatively obscure but growing field of detective work: forensic botany, or the use of plants to help solve crimes.

Cyborg Botany Turns Plants Into Security Devices. ... "Cyborg botany" sound like something from an 80s cyberpunk novel, but it's what Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes are working to make reality.

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one ...

Tell that to the cell that ate a bacterium 1.5 billion years ago and set in motion the evolution of all plants on Earth. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how plants came to ...

Plant naming is a fractious area of botany, partly because most plants are named after white, western men. Acknowledgement of female and Indigenous plant collectors is often absent from plant ...

Every winter, the botany garden is cleared out of its plant and aquatic life. They are moved into the greenhouse — their winter home until the next spring — or used for other purposes. Here they are ...