14-08-27 A new analysis suggests the planet can produce much more land-plant biomass -- the total material in leaves, stems, roots, fruits, grains and other terrestrial plant parts -- than previously thought. The study, reported in Environmental Science and...

14-08-18 A Virginia Tech scientist has discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. The finding by Jim Westwood, a professor of plant pathology, physi...

14-06-21 Global warming is generally expected to bring spring forward but, as a new study at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows, a concomitant（相伴的） influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect. C...

14-06-06 Researchers from the Missouri Botanical Garden have discovered in dry forests and transient（短暂的） sand dunes in Bolivia and Paraguay, a new plant species in the moonseed family Menispermaceae. The discovery was reported in the open access journa...

14-05-10 Scientists from the University of the Philippines, Los Baos have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle -- it eats nickel（镍） for a living -- accumulating up to 18,000 ppm of the metal in its leaves without itself being poisoned,...

14-04-16 Tobacco, a high-density crop which is mown（割） several times throughout its cycle, can produce as much as 160 tonnes of fresh matter per hectare and become a source of biomass suitable for producing bioethanol. As Jon Veramendi, head of the plant...

14-04-09 European scientists have made ground-breaking discoveries for improving the efficiency of the production of pharmaceuticals through plant biotechnology. Biotechnological production offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to...

14-04-09 A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at the University of Queensland, Australia, overturns a long-held theory in plant science. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven Nat...

14-03-20 An ancient stick insect（竹节虫） species may have mimicked plant leaves for defense, according to a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 19, 2014 by Maomin Wang, from Capital Normal University, China and colleagues. Many ins...

14-03-19 One day a monkey who was very hungry met with a turtle creeping along the road. My dear Slow Foot, can't you find anything to eat for me? said the monkey. O yes, Sly Head, I can, said the turtle. Come this way, there is a banana-plant just over ther...