Arguably our coolest woodpecker, the yellow-bellied sapsucker has provided plenty of fodder for insults and jokes, ...

Plant genetic engineering strategies may use strong constitutive and non-tissue-specific promoters to drive the expression of transgenes for disease control. However, strong transgene expression ...

Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy little alien mouths. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’re getting up close ...

Submitted By: Jennie Mazzone, Penn State Extension Franklin County Master Gardener Coordinator, and Penn State Mont Alto Forestry Instructor February is coming to an end. Warmer days are just around ...

To establish productive infection, plant viruses need to be able to efficiently invade and spread within a plant. Most viruses are introduced into a plant via the epidermal or mesophyll cells where ...

Water circulation in the plant root, stem and leaf Water enters the root hairs by osmosis, moving from high water concentration to low water concentration. Minerals dissolve easily in water and move ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Soft tissue sarcomas are cancers that develop in your body’s soft tissues like muscle, fat, tendons, or cartilage. Your legs are the most common place they develop. The American Cancer Society ...

Thorns are defined as modified shoots. What does that mean? Basically, it’s a branch that has crossed over to the dark side. Thorns are made from the stuff of stems! According to Missouri Botanical ...

Just as we need our skin, bark is the “skin” of trees and is critical to their survival. Bark helps keep out moisture when it rains, retains it in dry weather and serves as insulation against cold and ...

Aster yellows is caused by a phytoplasma (a type of bacteria) that is capable of infecting over 300 kinds of plants in 48 families, including a wide variety of vegetables, such as carrots, onion, ...