Scientists found a new gene that controls suberin, a layer in plant roots that helps manage water flow efficiently.

A plant’s root system has a profound effect on its overall health. Look at the roots of a sick, struggling plant, and you will often see a sick, struggling root system. While plants may tolerate ...

When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist, forests represent a much more complex world consisting of different species. This diversity of ...

Plant species vary greatly in how efficiently they convert sunlight into organic matter, how fast they reproduce, how much nutrients and water they need, how much carbon they store, or how fast their ...

Researchers have discovered a protein that seals plant roots to regulate the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil, the discovery could help develop climate proof crops that require less water ...

A garden can look like it is thriving on the surface while quietly struggling underneath the soil. Bright green leaves often ...

A research team has shed new light on the importance of plant roots for below-ground life, particularly in the tropics. Millions of small creatures toiling in a single hectare of soil including ...

Xiankai Lu at the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, investigated how tropical forest plants adapt to chronic high N addition by regulating root exudates and rhizosphere ...