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Combining chemical and genetic wood analysis improves detection of illegal timber trade (Phys.org 15Oct2025)
└Combined genetic and chemical methods boost the precision of tracing illegal timber in Central Africa (Boeschoten et al., 2025)
Naturally fast-growing spruce trees have many long fibers, case study shows (Phys.org 6Oct2025)
└Fiber length characteristics of Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees with fast height growth (Sjöstrand et al., 2025)
How to grow a giant pumpkin, with help from science (Phys.org 5Oct2025)
How root barrier breaks guide beneficial bacteria to plants (Phys.org 2Oct2025)
└Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization (Tsai et al., 2025)
Palm trees in Africa are in decline: These botanists made a plan to do something about it (The Conversation 1Oct2025)
Plants are incredibly sensitive—what we learned about their response system could help protect humans (The Conversation, 1Oct2025)
Plant mimicking ants to attract pollinators (Phys.org 24Sep2025)
└Olfactory floral mimicry of injured ants mediates the attraction of kleptoparasitic fly pollinators (Mochizuki, 2025)
Growth switch for plant adaptability discovered (Phys.org 22Sep2025)
└Noura et al. (2025) ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
From bud to branch: How buds communicate to shape plant architecture (Phys.org 19Sep2025)
└Nahas et al. (2025) A BRC1-modulated switch in auxin efflux accounts for the competition between Arabidopsis axillary buds
How a plant hormone helps roots bend and grow downward toward gravity (Phys.org 19Sep2025)
└Song et al. (2025) Auxin controls rice root angle via kinase OsILA1-mediated cell wall modifications
Polyploid plants maintain several distinct flower types through ancient genetic architecture (Phys.org 18Sep2025)
└Luo et al. (2025) Genetic architecture of the S‐locus supergene revealed in a tetraploid distylous species
How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell: It has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work (The Conversation 16Sep2025)
Getting to the root of tree survival (Phys.org 12Sep2025)
└Zhang et al. (2025) Revealing seasonal plasticity of whole-plant hydraulic properties using sap-flow and stem water-potential monitoring
New sunscreen made from Camellia pollen (LiveScience 17Sep2025)
└Yang et al. (2025) Nature's Guard: UV Filter from Pollen
Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling (Phys.org 11Sep2025)
└Gobatti et al. (2025) Impact of soil moisture content on urban tree evaporative cooling and human thermal comfort
Dandelions control the dispersal of their seeds through asymmetrical attachment (Phys.org 11Sep2025)
└Shields et al. (2025) Letting go with the flow: directional abscission of dandelion seeds
How do flowers know it’s spring? (The Conversation 8Sep2025)
How plants use sugar flow to control microorganisms at their roots (Phys.org 9Sep2025)
└Schultes et al. (2025) Photosynthate distribution determines spatial patterns in the rhizosphere microbiota of the maize root system
Cities need trees, but sometimes they have to be cut down. Here's why, and how to do it properly (The Conversation, 8Sep2025)
Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat—but not all species have ways to cope (The Conversation 6Sep2025)
└Middleby et al. (2025) Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
Computer graphics model captures the diverse world of plant leaves (Phys.org 4Sep2025)
└Yang et al. (2025) NeuraLeaf: Neural Parametric Leaf Models with Shape and Deformation Disentanglement
Exploring the secret lives of figs and fig wasps (Univ. of Maryland 4Sep2025)
Genetic mechanism reveals how plants coordinate flowering with light and temperature conditions (Phys.org 2Sep2025)
└Seluzicki et al. (2025) Genetic architecture of a light-temperature coincidence detector
Glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge with sunlight could pave way to plant-based lighting systems (Phys.org 27Aug2025)
└Liu et al. (2025) Sunlight-powered multicolor and uniform luminescence in material-engineered living plants
Why grow plants in space? They can improve how we produce food and medicine on Earth (The Conversation 27Aug2025)
Plant cell wall mechanics informs how to grow sustainable architectural forms (Phys.org 25Aug2025)
└Chen et al. (2025) Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development
Botanical time machines: AI is unlocking a treasure trove of data held in herbarium collections (The Conversation 19Aug2025)
Chaos gardening – wild beauty, or just a mess? A sustainable landscape specialist explains the trend (The Conversation 19Aug2025)
More drought brings earlier autumn leaf fall (Phys.org 19Aug2025)
└Yan et al. (2025) Drivers of the pre-season drought thresholds triggering earlier autumn foliar senescence in the Northern Hemisphere
Poplar tree discovery could help shape the future of energy and biomaterials (Phys.org 19Aug2025)
└Zhu et al. (2025) Factors underlying a latitudinal gradient in the S/G lignin monomer ratio in natural poplar variants
Single pollen parents in flowering plants may be more common than previously thought (Phys.org 7Aug2025)
└Bawa et al. (2025) Prevalence of monogamy at the level of flowers in plants
Flowering time and pollinator visits together shape which plants thrive each season (Phys.org 8Aug2025)
└Carneiro et al. (2025) Evolutionary consequences of flowering-pollinator asynchrony: The case of a floral oil-producing plant and its oil-collecting bees
Researchers digitize pollen from 18,000 plant species (Phys.org 8Aug2025)
└Jaramillo et al. (2025) Digitizing collections to unlock the full potential of palynology: A case study with the Smithsonian palynology collection
5 ingenious things trees do that human designers can learn from (The Conversation 3Aug2025)
Global study identifies upswing in photosynthesis driven by land, offset by oceans (Phys.org 1Aug2025)
└Zhang et al. (2025) Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean
Drought has a limited effect on tropical-tree growth—but hotter planet threatens that resilience (Phys.org 1Aug2025)
└Zuidema et al. (2025) Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
'Insect highways'—flower-filled dikes attract rare and diverse bee populations (Phys.org 30Jul2025)
└Swinkels et al. (2025) Phenology and flower species availability define wild bee communities on river embankments
Scientists trace photosynthesis-enabling protein to earliest land plants (Phys.org 31Jul2025)
└Kanaris et al. (2025) Shikimate Kinase-Like 1 Participates in an Ancient and Conserved Role Contributing to Chloroplast Biogenesis in Land Plants
How Lightning Is Quietly Reshaping Forests (ScienceBlog 22Jul2025)
└Krause et al. (2025) Simulating Lightning-Induced Tree Mortality in the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJ-GUESS
Newly found plant pathway helps detoxify cells under high light stress (Phys.org 18Jul2025)
└Jiang et al. (2025) A cytosolic glyoxylate shunt complements the canonical photorespiratory pathway in Arabidopsis
Scientists discover a simple set of rules that may explain how the tissues stay organized (Phys.org 15Jul2025)
└Boman et al. (2025) Dynamic Organization of Cells in Colonic Epithelium is Encoded by Five Biological Rules
First scientific evidence of auditory interaction between plants and animals (Phys.org 15Jul2025)
└Seltzer et al. (2025) Female Moths Incorporate Plant Acoustic Emissions into Their Oviposition Decision-Making Process
How plants survive drought: The unsuspected role of myosin XI in guard cells (Phys.org 14Jul2025)
└Liu et al. (2025) Myosin XI coordinates ABA-induced stomatal closure via microtubule stability and ROS synthesis in drought-stressed Arabidopsis
How plants respond to scattered sunlight in different ecosystems (Phys.org 14Jul2025)
└Schwartz et al. (2025) Diffuse Fertilization or Lack Thereof: A Multisite Synthesis of Water and Carbon Fluxes
Developing the perfect crop for future deep-space outposts (Phys.org 9Jul2025)
Study questions claims of carbon farming as climate solution in agriculture (Phys.org 9Jul2025)
└Hackfort et al. (2025) The political economy of carbon farming: Analyzing agribusiness' accumulation strategy and the imaginary of soil carbon markets
A molecular switch packs DNA on time for cell division (Phys.org 9Jul2025)
└Borsellini et al. (2025) Condensin II activation by M18BP1
How plants build the microbiome they need to survive in a tough environment (Phys.org 8Jul2025)
└Johnson et al. (2025) Functional team selection as a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes
White clover study reveals genetic architecture that allows invasive plants to thrive worldwide (Phys.org 8Jul2025)
└Battlay et al. (2025) Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant
How plants manage light: New insights into nature's oxygen-making machinery (Phys.org 8Jul2025)
└Leonardo et al. (2025) Bidirectional Energy Flow in the Photosystem II Supercomplex
Beneficial root microbes can help sustain rice yields in unfertilized fields (phys.org 7Jul2025)
└Adachi et al. (2025) Field dynamics of the root endosphere microbiome assembly in paddy rice cultivated under no fertilizer input
Mutagenesis technique boosts the efficiency of rubisco, a key enzyme in photosynthesis (Phys.org 7Jul2025)
└McDonald et al. (2025) In vivo directed evolution of an ultrafast Rubisco from a semianaerobic environment imparts oxygen resistance
Most plant-friendly fungi are a mystery to scientists (The Conversation 5Jul2025)
└van Galen et al. (2025) The biogeography and conservation of Earth's 'dark' ectomycorrhizal fungi,
Fig Trees Turn Atmospheric Carbon Into Stone (ScienceBlog 6Jul2025)
New method removes mysterious organelles from stem cells and embryos to reveal their roles (Phys.org 4Jul2025)
└Schmitz et al. (2025) Unraveling mitochondrial influence on mammalian pluripotency via enforced mitophagy
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' (Phys.org 30Jun2025)
└Dissawa et al. (2025) Chlorothalonil exposure impacts larval development and adult reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster
How sugar serves as a hidden thermostat in plants (Phys.org 1Jul2025)
└Fan et al. (2025) A multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis
Plant genome evolution shows both episodic and gradual diploidization patterns (Phys.org 27Jun2025)
└Wang et al. (2025) Diploidization in a wild rice allopolyploid is both episodic and gradual
Lessons from the heartwood: Resilience in regenerating redwoods (Phys.org 26Jun2025)
└Sillett et al. (2025) Improved allometry and heartwood development of Sequoia sempervirens in secondary forests
Plant cells decide their fate by listening to neighbors and sensing their size (Phys.org 26Jun2025)
└Fung et al. (2025) Multi-scale dynamics influence the division potential of stomatal lineage ground cells in Arabidopsis
Detailed analysis of the benefits and trade-offs of urban street trees in Las Vegas (Phys.org 25Jun2025)
└Henao et al. (2025) Effectiveness of street trees in reducing air temperature and outdoor heat exposure in Las Vegas
Scientists discover unknown organelle inside our cells (Phys.org 25Jun2025)
└Tavakoli et al. (2025) Hemifusomes and interacting proteolipid nanodroplets mediate multi-vesicular body formation
Droughts can reduce the caloric value of flower nectar by up to 95%, study finds (Phys.org 24Jun2025)
└Frigero et al. (2025) Extreme events induced by climate change alter nectar offer to pollinators in cross pollination-dependent crops
How to protect your favorite urban trees from increasing danger (The Conversation 23Jun2025)
└Valuing and Protecting Important Trees Outside Woodlands (The Tree Council)
New genes, old job: Recently evolved genes play key role in cell division, study finds (Phys.org 23Jun2025)
└Pulver et al. (2025) Evolutionarily recent transcription factors partake in human cell cycle regulation
Study reveals how wheat roots are quietly engineering their microbiomes (Phys.org 23Jun2025)
└Yang et al. (2025) Eight Years in the Soil: Temporal Dynamics of Wheat-Associated Bacterial Communities Under Dryland and Irrigated Conditions
Could trees know when the summer solstice is? (The Conversation 19Jun2025)
Solar panels give edge to tomatoes grown underneath (Phys.org 18Jun2025)
To what extent are tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened by extinction? (Phys.org 18Jun2025)
└Beech et al. (2025) Comprehensive tree assessments for prioritising conservation action in Mesoamerica
Tree Planting Can’t Save Big Oil, as Study Reveals Math Problem (Phys.org 19Jun2025)
Tree Planting Can’t Save Big Oil, as Study Reveals Math Problem (Phys.org 19Jun2025)
└Naef et al. (2025) Carbon offsetting of fossil fuel emissions through afforestation is limited by financial viability and spatial requirements
A weird group of boronias puzzled botanists for decades. Now we've solved the pollination mystery (Phys.org 17Jun2025)
Artificial light in big cities is extending the growing season of urban plants (Phys.org 16Jun2025)
└Wang et al. (2025) Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons
An evolutionary leap without rules: The environments colonized by plants with a doubled genome (Phys.org 16Jun2025)
└Meirmans et al. (2025) Whole-genome duplication leads to significant but inconsistent changes in climatic niche
How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests (Phys.org 13Jun2025)
└Gonzalez-Guarda et al. (2025) Fossil evidence of proboscidean frugivory and its lasting impact on South American ecosystems
Redefining thermosensing plants: New model could enable climate-tailored crops for food security (Phys.org 13Jun2025)
└Yadav et al. (2025) Dispersed components drive temperature sensing and response in plants
Making trees in fire-maintained forest less susceptible to drought (Phys.org 13Jun2025)
└Wilson & Hurteau (2025) Trees in Fire-Maintained Forests Have Similar Growth Responses to Drought, but Greater Stomatal Conductance Than Trees in Fire-Excluded Forests
Heat-resilient crops: Altering leaf orientation, chemistry and photosynthesis to combat yield loss (Phys.org 12Jun2025)
└Bernacchi et al. (2025) Safeguarding crop photosynthesis in a rapidly warming world
Smart 'switch' in plants allows them to redirect roots to find water (Phys.org 12Jun2025)
└Roy et al. (2025) Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses
Summer solstice is an optimal day for plants—but climate change could disrupt this timing (Phys.org 10Jun2025)
└Meersch & Wolkovich (2025) Summer solstice optimizes the thermal growing season
'Resurrection' millet—a plant that revives after severe drought (Phys.org 4Jun2025)
└Stewart et al. (2025) Xylem embolism refilling revealed in stems of a weedy grass
A three-way interaction that hatches potato root parasites (Phys.org 4Jun2025)
└Akiyama et al. (2025) Solanoeclepin C, a root-secreted molecule converted by rhizosphere microbes to hatching factors for potato cyst nematodes
The greener the trees around a volcano look from space, the closer it is to erupting (LiveScience 30 May 2025)
└Guinn et al. (2025) Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy
Does planting trees really help cool the planet? (Phys.org 29May2025)
└Allen et al. (2025) Atmospheric chemistry enhances the climate mitigation potential of tree restoration
AI tool reveals single-cell structure of chromosomes—in 3D (Phys.org 28May2025)
└Wang & Cheng (2025) Reconstructing 3D chromosome structures from single-cell Hi-C data with SO(3)-equivariant graph neural networks
Young trees face 'make or break' moment as drought reshapes Europe's forests (Phys.org 26May2025)
└König et al. (2025) Combining national forest inventories reveals distinct role of climate on tree recruitment in European forests
A root development gene that's older than root development (Phys.org 25May2025)
└Iwata et al. (2025) Evolutionary-conserved RLF, a cytochrome b5-like heme-binding protein, regulates organ development in Marchantia polymorpha
Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes (Phys.org 22May2025)
└Kong et al. (2025) Stochastic gene expression in auxin signaling in the floral meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana
How Hibiscus flowers lost their bullseyes (Phys.org 21May2025)
└Yeo et al. (2025) The genetic basis of replicated bullseye pattern reduction across the Hibiscus trionum complex
Closely related plant proteins can control cell shape and growth in surprisingly distinct ways (Phys.org 21May2025)
└Brumm et al. (2025) Functional divergence of plant SCAR/WAVE proteins is determined by intrinsically disordered regions
Plants Sweeten Nectar When They Hear (Yes, Hear) Bees Buzzing Nearby (ScienceBlog 21May2025)
Ancient pollen reveals stories about Earth's history, from dinosaurs to the Mayan collapse (Phys.org 20May2025)
Dual associations with two fungi found to improve tree fitness (Phys.org 15May2025)
└Rog et al. (2025) The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual-Mycorrhizal Woody Species
How a leaf's symmetry and lobes impact its journey back to the tree (Phys.org 14May2025)
└Biviano & Jensen (2025) Settling aerodynamics is a driver of symmetry in deciduous tree leaves
Nature's viny vampire: Discovering what drives parasitic Cuscuta campestris (Phys.org 27Mar 2025)
└Park et al. (2025) Involvement of MID1-COMPLEMENTING ACTIVITY 1 encoding a mechanosensitive ion channel in prehaustorium development of the stem parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris
How plants control partnerships with fungi: Study finds stress hormones influence symbiosis (Phys.org 7Mar2025)
└ Das et al. (2025) Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis.
Sundews' secret to survival: Study reveals how carnivorous plants adapt to microhabitat challenges (Phys.org 16Jan2025)
└Hatcher et al. (2025) Carnivorous sundews (Drosera rotundifolia) are more carnivorous in high‐light bog microhabitats that are not also nutrient‐rich
Why do some trees lose their leaves while others stay green? (The Conversation 9Oct2024)
Flowers use adjustable 'paint by numbers' petal designs to attract pollinators (Phys.org 13Sep2024)
└Riglet et al. (2024) Hibiscus bullseyes reveal mechanisms controlling petal pattern proportions that influence plant-pollinator interactions
Long stems on flowers are an adaptation that encourages bat pollination (Phys.org 11Sep2024)
└Muchhala et al. (2024) Making yourself heard: why well-exposed flowers are an adaptation for bat pollination
The fascinating secrets of plant reproduction that scientists are still uncovering (Phys.org 10Sep2024)
Newly discovered, free-living eukaryote is the first known to have lost its mitochondria (Phys.org 21Aug2024)
└Williams et al. (2024) Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads
Streetlights running all night makes leaves so tough that insects can't eat them, threatening the food chain (Phys.org 5Aug2024)
└Cao et al. (2024) Artificial light at night decreases leaf herbivory in typical urban areas
Plant biologists discover an ancient gene family is responsible for plant prickles across species (Phys.org 1Aug2024)
└Satterlee et al. (2024) Convergent evolution of plant prickles by repeated gene co-option over deep time
Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere (Phys.org 24July2024)
└Gauci et al. (2024) Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces
Scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle (Phys.org 11Apr2024)
└Coale et al. (2024) Nitrogen-fixing organelle in algae
└Massana (2024) The nitroplast: a nitrogen-fixing organelle
Study finds world's most prolific CO₂-fixing enzyme is slowly getting better (Phys.org 7Mar2024)
└ Bouvier et al. (2024) Rubisco is evolving for improved catalytic efficiency and CO2 assimilation in plants
The geologic history of primary productivity (Crockford et al. 2023)
Single-celled protists in the guts of animals thrive without mitochondria (Phys.org 19Dec2023)
└Novak et al. (2023) Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria
The American Chestnut Foundation Bails as GE Chestnut Develops Growth and Mortality Problems and Fails to Resist the Blight (Independent Science News 15Dec2023)
Artificial Life: Scientists create first-ever man-made chromosome (Brighter Side of News 9Nov2023)
└Yue et al. (2023) Dissecting aneuploidy phenotypes by constructing Sc2.0 chromosome VII and SCRaMbLEing synthetic disomic yeast
The Evolution of Tree Roots Nearly Ended Life on Earth (Syfy Wire 19Nov2022; Smart et al. 2022)
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