Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn’t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process ...

For all the ways that humans have toyed with nature, how we grow and extract materials from the forest and fields remains fundamentally unchanged. To get lumber, for example, we plant a tree, let it ...

SESTO FIORENTINO, Italy-- Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn't easy being green: He runs the world's only laboratory dedicated to plant intelligence. At the International Laboratory of Plant ...

The Plant Physiology Laboratory and plant growth facilities span 2,200 square feet and are located on the 11th floor of the CNRC. Under the direction of a USDA plant physiologist, this laboratory is ...

Plants get a GMO glow-up: Genetically modified varieties coming out of the lab and into homes and gardens by James W. Satterlee, The Conversation Editors' notes Add as preferred source ...

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a growing environmental problem. The extent to which agricultural crops absorb these particles and whether they end up in food has so far been difficult to ...

Scientists taught plants to make rare psychedelic compounds from plants, fungi, and animals, opening new possibilities for ...

With the March launch of Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat in Singapore and this month’s announcement of S$144 million research funding in food innovation under the Government's Research, Innovation ...

The Government of Guyana yesterday officially commissioned its Biotechnology Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory at the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) compound, Mon Repos, ...