Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now ...

Reviving pot-bound plants can be a tricky task, especially when soil is out of the equation. However, innovative solutions ...

The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) offers an ecologically advantageous alternative to silage maize for bioenergy production ...

Researchers created a method to track nanoplastic uptake and transport in plants, detecting them in winter wheat roots during ...

New work by Alex Cantó-Pastor (left) and Professor Siobhan Brady, Department of Plant Biology, shows how tomato plants protect themselves from drought by waterproofing their roots. The findings could ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a growing environmental problem. The extent to which agricultural crops absorb ...

PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case ?) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and ...

Using an advanced method, researchers at TU Graz and the Centre for Electron Microscopy have detected plastic in the roots of ...