As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions. This challenge is especially urgent for crops—plants resilient to drought and ...

Hot enough for ya? We’ve barely turned the page to July, but we’ve had more than our share of relentless heat. Have you ever wondered how plants cope with heat? It’s not as if they can turn on their ...

Next time you go for a walk in upper Bidwell Park, look closely at the different plants you see. Notice the enormous diversity of shapes, colors and forms. There are trees, shrubs, perennials and ...

Blacksburg, Va. -- Tiny tropical plants survived their continental-drift relocation to the Arctic by adapting to its harsh climate. Research into such adaptations of millennia ago, when ancient ...

Plants have developed multiple morphological, physiological and molecular strategies to cope with adverse environmental conditions. Extremophile plants, however, are unique in that they likely evolved ...

University of Calgary researcher Sam Yeaman and his team have determined in a recent study that there are some key genes that are particularly important for how plants respond adaptively to ...

A new study has identified the genetic underpinnings of adaptive strategies adopted by major plant lineages in a naturally harsh environment. These strategies that include the enrichment of ...

"It's really important to look across the plant kingdom because plants have solved so many problems already. Why not read their genomes like a book and try to understand it and solve the problems ...

In this weeks “Connecting with COSI”, NBC4’s Monica Day learned about how plants use various smells to adapt to the environment in COSI’s “Nature’s Superheroes” exhibit. Plants can produce specific ...

In the face of rapid climate change, it is important that plants can adapt quickly to new conditions to ensure their survival. Using field experiments and plant genome studies, an international ...

Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...