A century of plant species discoveries in China reveals a hidden bias that could affect global plant conservation.

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way plants make powerful chemicals, revealing hidden biological connections that could transform how medicines are discovered and produced. Plants produce ...

Giles Oldroyd, the new president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, thinks now is the time for plant science to change the world. The ability to sequence DNA has created a “phenomenal ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that ...

Morris Arboretum & Gardens has completed construction on their new Plant Science Lab to accelerate research in plant identification, conservation genetics, and species evolution using molecular tools.

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

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

Missouri Botanical Garden president Lúcia Lohmann presents during the Plant Science Family Reunion at MoBOT on Aug. 21, 2025. There was hardly an empty chair inside the Missouri Botanical Garden’s ...