Kashish Verma, a student in the agricultural and environmental plant science doctoral program in Penn State’s College of ...

An international team of scientists, including Donald Danforth Plant Science Center member emerita Elizabeth "Toby" Kellogg, ...

Plants, as the base for ecological food chains, serve as the structural and functional foundation of natural and managed systems. The study of plant science and biotechnology provides opportunity in a ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Joe Louis has been named head of the Department of Plant Science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, effective ...

Cultivate knowledge and practical skills to improve plant health, food production, and environmental sustainability. Plants play a vital role in food production, environmental health, and human ...

Plants do not have brains, nerves or specialized sensory organs like animals, yet they can still detect mechanical changes in ...

Without plants, we'd have no air to breathe or food to eat, yet plant science lingers in the shadowy wings while other fields take center stage. With the goal of shining the spotlight on plants, a new ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

Explore our faculty research interests in agronomy, horticulture, weed science, and rangeland systems at UW’s Plant Sciences Department across Wyoming’s landscapes. Assistant Professor of Forage Crop ...

Plants the world over are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new assessment. The research is expected to improve Earth system simulations that scientists ...

One of the ways that plants are distinct from mammals is that plants don’t have nipples. Despite this disadvantage, one can still get milk from a plant. Generally speaking, what’s called plant milk is ...