Moonflower ( Ipomoea alba) is a perennial vine native to tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America, from ...

Researchers have documented for the first time that insects can hear and react to plants’ acoustic distress signals, which ...

A late-night storm toppled thousands of tobacco plants at Kent Farms Monday, forcing crews to right each one by hand just ...

"The flowers are pale (white or yellow) and visible in low light for moth eyesight; the nectar flows at dusk and into the ...

More and more universities across the country have decided to reject hefty donations and grants from big tobacco companies. However, such a decision has not been fully implemented at Cornell ...

Plant signaling pathways decoded Date: August 28, 2024 Source: University of Würzburg Summary: Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants ...

In the greenhouse trials, researchers bioengineered tobacco plants to emit isoprene and compared the observations with tobacco plants that didn’t produce isoprene.

But it doesn’t. A tobacco plant touched in one place will experience that stimulus throughout its whole body. No brains, the dissenting papers claim, means no intelligence.

This cycle is self-sustaining, which means it shines brightly and doesn't need an extra chemical like the tobacco plant did to light up. "The [firefly] gene was functional, but it didn't connect ...