If you want beautiful, full, diverse planters without the hefty price tag, you may consider propagating your plants. Propagation is the process of growing new plants from clippings of existing plants.

With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists have shown.

Just as hormones are important for growth and development of humans, they are also important for plant growth and development. Plants contain these and other biochemical compounds that are ...

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

Researchers have shown how one hormone pathway in plants regulates the way leaves build their epidermal layer with the right number of breathing pores, giving plants a strategy to optimize their ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method that enables plant cells to regenerate into complete plants without the need ...

The retraction is a setback in the search to find receptors for ABA, a notoriously difficult task. ABA responds to environmental stresses such as drought, and is an alluring target for agricultural ...

We all love a good trailing or hanging Pothos and Philodendron. But many times, especially if you are growing it from ...

A gradient (red) in the concentration of the plant hormone auxin determines that only one of the eight nuclei in a plant's embryo sac will become an egg. (The blue island in the image is a cell ...

As the world heats up, plants face a dilemma - the same tiny holes they have to open to exchange gases also let out water. They can close the holes, called stomata, to stay hydrated in hotter, drier ...