Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like ...

Plants make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using ...

To combat this problem, scientists have been attempting to use genetic engineering to help crops control their own ...

In a world with a growing population and a changing environment, food security is an important issue. Scientists have been working to learn more about how a destructive bacterium called Xanthomonas, ...

In an interdisciplinary study, researchers discovered that symbiotic bacteria communicate with legume plants through specific molecules and that this communication influences which bacteria grow near ...

New Brunswick, NJ -- Rutgers researchers have discovered that the Chlamydia bacterium, which causes a sexually transmitted disease (STD), shares an evolutionary heritage with plants. That shared ...

Researchers were able to demonstrate how a specific bacterium inside the seeds of rice plants effectively and in an eco-friendly way inhibits destructive plant pathogens. Rice is the staple food of ...

Learn how to use rice water to fertilize plants, including three preparation methods and how often to apply it safely.

Humans have bred for desirable plant and animal traits for millennia by selecting and crossing their offspring. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen are taking a natural shortcut to ...