Plants can reshape a key protein to survive heat and cold, helping photosynthesis continue as temperatures swing.

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

A landmark review reveals conserved core cycles and sequential innovations that drove the diversification of land plants, ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

We call them “the fun guys” at my house and treat them as both food and medicine. Mycology is a broad and in-depth topic not ...

Discovery of a Lystrosaurus embryo inside an egg proves early mammal relatives laid eggs and survived mass extinction through ...

A team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists are looking to exploit a biological weakness shared by many plant-feeding ...

It’s me, your dad. I think it’s time you and I have a little chat. I know this is probably a very confusing time for you, a ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg Curtzwiler/Iowa State University. Researchers from Iowa State’s Polymer and ...

Some animals are capable of parthenogenesis, a reproductive process in which females produce offspring without fertilization. This phenomenon has been documented in reptiles, sharks, birds, and ...