These plant life cycle activities make it easy for kids to see how plants grow from seeds to full blooms. Simple hands-on projects, like sprouting beans or creating a mini greenhouse, help bring ...

Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers report iron oxides can drive the same conversion at comparable ...

A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...

A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link ...

Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ... Desert ephemeral plants are known for their ability to complete their life cycle in a short period during ...

A new plant species, dubbed the "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park by park staff and confirmed by ...

Meet "wooly devil," a fuzzy new plant species discovered at a national park in Texas is a brand new species. Botanists are excited to watch it grow this spring.

Meet the wooly devil, a newly discovered plant that was found in Big Bend National Park in Texas in 2024. But it's not just a ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — A new plant species has been discovered at the Big Bend ... “I’m excited to discover whether there are other populations in the park, details of its life cycle, what ...

A new plant species, Ovicula biradiata, has been discovered in Big Bend National Park, marking the first such discovery in a U.S. national park in nearly 50 yea ...

In plants, some of the steps are less well understood. So in a striking act of scientific creativity, Liu turned to the animal kingdom and to human medical science to figure out what was going on.