Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi – an important symbiosis for absorbing essential ...

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Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China's Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don't take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues. When you ...

For a plant growing on the forest floor, a beam of light from an opening canopy can be concerning. But new research suggests that plants growing together may be able to warn each other about such ...