Every year when spring officially arrives, people spend more time in the great outdoors as the season gears up. Whether you’re looking for help identifying plants along your morning hike or designing ...

Stuart Thompson has received funding from MAFF and the Nuffield Foundation and has consulted to the University of Copenhagen. Plants may appear silent, indifferent organisms to us, but recent research ...

This research is generously supported by the University of Canterbury Vision Mātauranga Development Fund. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of ...

Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. Of the two ...

More than 200 years ago, French botanist René Desfontaines instructed a student to monitor the behavior of Mimosa pudica plants as he drove them around Paris in a carriage. Mimosa pudica quickly ...

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. What plants do you think are notable or at least interesting in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

Maybe you are mulling over your seed choices for 2021 in your favorite gardening catalogs, or perhaps you’ve wondered about some of the gardening terms bandied about in horticultural conversations. Do ...

In Korea, plants can be protected by both Patent Law and Plant Variety Protection Law. Activities to seek the protection of the IP rights pertaining to plants have been growing, particularly with the ...

A factory and its machinery are examples of plant assets. Broadly speaking, an asset is anything that has value and can be owned or used to produce value, and can theoretically be converted to cash.