RICHFIELD, Ohio — Many people treat their lawns and flower beds with weed killers, but they may be getting rid of some very beneficial plants. One of those plants is the broad leafed plantain; a ...

Carbon fiber may be strong and light, but it's also expensive. South African scientists have developed a cheaper and more sustainable alternative, though, in which the carbon fibers are replaced with ...

Field experiments with ribwort plantain in the Jena Experiment The research team focused its investigations on ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata) because its ecological interactions have already ...

Odor collection on ribwort plantain plants after caterpillar feeding. 19 different plantain populations, whose seeds were collected from different locations around the world, were grown in a ...

A quiet grassland can feel still, but it is never silent. Every leaf, flower, and root releases tiny scent molecules that ...

Pamela Medina van Berkum collects volatile organic compounds from communities and individual plants in the field at the Jena Experiment field site (https://the-jena-experiment.de/). In her experiments ...