Scientists have long sought to explain a key mismatch in Earth's early history: oxygen-producing photosynthesis evolved ...

This Research Topic is centered on the complex physiological processes plants undergo when responding to stress, which often occur at the organ and tissue levels. Traditionally, the focus has been on ...

Maryland was 1.5 million trees on the way to its goal of planting more than 5 million native trees across the state by the end of 2031 to help reduce carbon in the atmosphere, under the state's Tree S ...

Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...

While working on her PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Malia Moore focused on how local seagrasses could ...

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

The study, led by Monash University researchers from Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), shows that microbes’ ability to live from gases in the atmosphere, including hydrogen and carbon ...

Students often revise by reading long answers again and again. But when exams approach, the real challenge is remembering the key idea of a topic quickly. One s ...

Scientists discovered that mitochondria inside plant cells can pull oxygen away from chloroplasts, revealing a hidden mechanism that may help plants adapt to stress.

According to Li, the findings showed that plant species' naturally evolved processes could potentially be replicated to boost ...

A research team from the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) and the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has helped address this question by developing an ...