Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

Postharvest biology plays a pivotal role in maintaining the quality and shelf life of agricultural commodities exposed to abiotic stress conditions after ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species survived an extreme, four-year drought in California, and researchers now know ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Reproduction forms the foundation for the sustainability of fish populations, driving both the productivity of global aquaculture and the conservation ...

Scientists have identified genes that allow plants to pause root growth during environmental stress and restart it when conditions improve.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of plant DNA that has survived virtually unchanged for more than 400 million years. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...

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Shillong MP Ricky A J Syngkon has sought an immediate freeze on the environmental clearance process for a proposed integrated cement plant in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, highlighting his ...