While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists have discovered a tiny bright-orange pumpkin toadlet in Brazil’s cloud forests. Named Brachycephalus lulai, it ...

Abstract: Identifying medicinal plants is crucial in herbal medicine, pharmaceutical research, and plant taxonomy. Conventional manual classification techniques tend to be errorprone and ...

Drone Institute expands Lafayette HQ, bringing 1,300+ jobs. $340K renovation adds pilot training, data products & AI-powered inspection tech.

As a prize for the funniest reader-penned cannabis limerick, metro columnist Dan Casey is giving away a pot plant named after weed attorney and Roanoke City Councilman Nick Hagen.