Australian researchers have created tiny compartments to help supercharge photosynthesis, potentially boosting wheat and rice ...

Every year, abiotic stress factors such as drought, heat, salinity or high light intensity—combined with unfavorable soil ...

Dr. Steven P. Romberger, Edward J. Smerek Chair of Mathematics, the Sciences, and Technology and associate professor of ...

Too much sun can ruin photosynthesis, scorching plants and other organisms that depend on capturing sunlight for energy.

In a new study published today in Nature Communications, we present a step towards more productive crops: a simple, tiny box ...

Previous NASA research scientist Troy Magney started a new position at the University of Montana as the W.A. Franke Endowed ...

Your carrot plant sends the sugar it makes down a tube called the phloem, all the way to the root. It gets stored in plant cells there. When winter comes, your carrot plant will enter a resting stage.

Have you ever wondered why leaves change color in the fall? Or how the trees know when to start dropping their leaves? Why ...

Sunlight drives nearly all life on Earth, but much remains a mystery about the light-harvesting molecules on which biology depends in photosynthesis. In a new study published online June 14 in the ...

Discover the rare and mysterious ghost flowers of Japan—plants that thrive without photosynthesis, studied by botanist Kenji ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and a few types of single-celled organisms use energy from the sun to transform carbon dioxide and water into a storable form of energy: glucose. One of ...