A genome study explains why the invasive water fern Salvinia molesta spreads so fast, offering new hope for its control.

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A Hiroshima-University-led research team has discovered a key gene responsible for the initiation of gemma development, acting as a "master switch" to start asexual reproduction (cloning) in the model ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

(CBS DETROIT) — This Halloween, we have a true ghost story, but it has nothing to do with spirits from the great beyond. Rare Plant Fairy in Detroit is working on somewhat of a ghost story. While it ...

It is one of mankind’s oldest questions: How can we grow enough food? Indian-American plant biologists Venkatesan Sundaresan, 73, and Imtiyaz Khanday, 40, weren’t even looking to answer it, really. In ...

A Detroit lab director said her team has been working on the project for around two years to make copies of the plant made famous in books and movies. Jocelyn Ho and her team at the Rare Plant Fairy ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Shark Bay, an Australian World Heritage Area, serves as home to various animals that feed on its thriving sea grass. Turns out that sea grass ...

Imtiyaz Khanday (left) and Venkatesan Sundaresan photographed with cloned rice plants in a green house on the UC Davis campus in 2018. The team's work on creating rice plants that can produce clones ...

A new study revealed that self-cloning sea grass located off the western Australian coast is actually one individual plant, making it the largest ever and the size of the entire city of Cincinnati.