The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

The study of plant life by Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 Publication date 1910 Topics Botany Publisher London : Blackie and Son Collection cdl; americana Contributor University of California ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

1 College of Life Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Ürümqi, China 2 Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes of Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Institute of ...