A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops rather than ...

Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

Factors and issues in plant choice / A. Chevalier, E. Marinova, L. Peña-Chocarro -- Exploring diversity in the past and in the present / edited by L. Zapata -- Crop diversity through time / edited by ...

While research is still mixed on whether diverse fire patterns promote biodiversity, a new study suggests that practices under active Indigenous stewardship can do so. The study draws a reference to ...

A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the ...

Addis Ababa, March 30, 2025 (ENA)— The genetic diversity of the world’s plants and forests is under threat, new reports published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ...

For the first time, every plant species in the state of Nevada can be found in a single list. Published last month, “Nevada Vascular Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State’s Botanical Diversity” ...

But thanks to a Bellevue University natural sciences research team composed of faculty and students, we now know there’s another reason – native plant gardens support more microbial diversity and ...

The minor is intended to give students a broad perspective plant biology. Through required coursework on diversity, evolution, and structure and function of plants, students will have a foundational ...