An enzyme found in papaya could lead to new medicines: a scientific review reveals the surprising pharmaceutical potential of ...

Scientists have discovered how an enzyme "knows" where to insert a double bond when desaturating plant fatty acids. Understanding the mechanism may lead to new ways to engineer plant oils as a ...

Many plants, including crops, release volatiles in response to insect attack. The chemical compounds can be a defense or can be an aromatic call for help to attract enemies of the attacking insect.

One of the great mysteries in plant biology is how, given the clouds of pollen released by dozens of plant species all at the ...

UPTON, NY—Plant biochemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new level of regulation in the biochemical “machinery” that plants use to convert ...

State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (SKLPPB) has the following research output in the current window (1 August 2024 - 31 July 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a ...

The notion that plant-based or cell-cultured meat will only ever capture a minority share of the conventional meat market is based on a false premise, says Impossible Foods, which is developing ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University will use a $4.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to unlock plants' biochemistry secrets. Using cultivated and wild tomato species from ...

Researchers at Purdue University and UC Davis have found that petunias cannot properly form reproductive structures without chemical signals delivered between different parts of the plant. The work ...

The roots of communication between plants lie in chemical secretions. The mechanisms of above-ground interactions on below-ground communications between neighboring plants. Credit: Elhakeem et al. A ...

THIS book might be taken as affording a measure of how much chemistry the student of botany is ex pected to know. Somehow, chemistry does not as a rule find favour with botanists; it is perhaps too ...