For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

Root hairs represent a low-cost strategy to enhance nutrient uptake because they can significantly increase the nutrient-acquiring surface of plant roots. While primary and lateral roots are ...

Environmental stress events rarely occur in isolation; plants are frequently challenged by dynamic scenarios involving ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...