Most land plants form mutually beneficial symbioses with fungi. The plant and the fungus exchange vital nutrients. A team led ...

Researchers studied how plants search for water when soil becomes dry. Plants normally grow roots downward due to gravity.

The timing of plants' root placement is due to autophagy, the recycling pathway many people associate with health benefits ...

New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

You can even work used coffee grounds directly into the soil around acid-loving plants like azaleas and blueberries. Over ...

Micronutrients are often required as cofactors for enzyme activity. Mineral nutrients are usually obtained from the soil through plant roots, but many factors can affect the efficiency of nutrient ...

The plant root-soil interface is a dynamic region in which numerous biogeochemical processes take place driven by the physical activity, and the diversity of chemicals released by the plant root ...

Defects in the response to fire-generated karrikins turn out to be responsible for root anomalies that were previously ascribed to other plant hormones. Pea plant (Pisum sativum) roots that have been ...

The most definitive way to confirm root rot is by looking at the plant's roots. Infected roots turn unnaturally dark and ...

Common garden beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) are pole bean or bush varieties. "The plants in this family have pea-like pods," ...

“We show as well that the plant root microbiome is not very different from the human microbiome.” To understand root-microbe interactions in detail, the researchers grew Arabidopsis thaliana and ...