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joshua tree
It's Alive Plants
Shutdown aside, Joshua trees live an odd life
Growing only in the U.S. Southwest, wild Joshua trees evolved a rare, fussy pollination scheme.
By Susan Milius | 8:00am, February 06, 2019
3-D visualization chloroplasts fighting microbes
Science Visualized | Plants
How light-farming chloroplasts morph into defensive warriors
By Jeremy Rehm | 8:00am, January 28, 2019
tobacco farmer
News | Plants
A new way to genetically tweak photosynthesis boosts plant growth
By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, January 03, 2019
conifer fossil
News | Plants
More plants survived the world’s greatest mass extinction than thought
By Laurel Hamers | 2:12pm, December 20, 2018
South American maize varieties
News | Plants
Corn domestication took some unexpected twists and turns
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, December 13, 2018
scientists with hybrid rice plants
News | Plants
Hybrid rice engineered with CRISPR can clone its seeds
By Susan Milius | 3:52pm, December 12, 2018
cactus spine poking a finger
News in Brief | Plants
Cactus spine shapes determine how they stab victims
By Jennifer Leman | 6:00am, November 27, 2018
researcher holding sockeye salmon
The Science Life | Plants
How researchers flinging salmon inadvertently spurred tree growth
By Laurel Hamers | 1:54pm, October 30, 2018
cacao beans
News | Plants
Ancient South Americans tasted chocolate 1,500 years before anyone else
By Bruce Bower | 12:00pm, October 29, 2018
Radula perrottetii
News | Plants
Liverwort plants contain a painkiller similar to the one in marijuana
By Jennifer Leman | 5:34pm, October 24, 2018
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