Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time.

Blast disease, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn. Pyricularia oryzae), is a major threat to global rice production, responsible for nearly 30% of yield losses worldwide. This disease not ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...