Garden beds don’t run on luck—they run on life. Beneath every thriving plant sits a bustling underground world of microbes, fungi, and organic matter working nonstop to fuel growth. Toss a little ...

Along with sugar reallocation, a basic molecular mechanism within plants controls the formation of new lateral roots. Botanists have demonstrated that it is based on the activity of a certain factor, ...

A paper describes how the moving parts of a particular plant protein control whether plants can grow and make energy-intensive products such as oil -- or instead put in place a series of steps to ...

Findings reveal how a sugar-sensing protein acts as a "machine" to switch plant growth — and oil production — on and off UPTON, N.Y. — Proteins are molecular machines, with flexible pieces and moving ...