Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later.

Image: The Plants in Space habitat aboard the International Space Station. A unique science project designed to sow the excitement of scientific discovery in students is sprouting this week aboard the ...

Paco Calvo, a researcher at Spain’s University of Murcia, is on a mission. According to New Scientist, he’s attempting to build a solid scientific framework for understanding “plant neurobiology,” ...

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 plant development than ...

Plants, as the base for ecological food chains, serve as the structural and functional foundation of natural and managed systems. The study of plant science and biotechnology provides opportunity in a ...

Students in Jaime Sammons' Plant Science program are taking the lead in transforming the campus front entrance into an interactive, welcoming green space that reflects Greenwave pride and Fallon roots ...

Microbes growing on flowers have adverse effects on their fruit yields. This is why plants are quick to shed their flowers, reveals a new study involving both field experiments and plant microbiome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...