A new study reveals that plant immune defense involves a previously overlooked early signalling phase driven by jasmonates.

University of Warwick researchers discover rapid, jasmonate-driven, early immune response in plants using breakthrough ...

Some plants, like soybean, are known to possess an innate defense machinery that helps them develop resistance against insects trying to feed on them. However, exactly how these plants recognize ...

Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD 1 billion due to yield losses every year. Yet these plants almost never ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Joining a growing list of imperiled species, four more plants from Florida's pine rockland ecosystem have been proposed for federal protection, the Fish and Wildlife Service ...