For years, an Australian researcher has drawn headlines with tantalizing evidence that plants can think. A growing chorus of scientists question her claims. When The Secret Life of Plants came out in ...

Lucas Cernusak receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Chin Wong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

In a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about plant behaviour, scientists from India have reported what they ...

Microbes growing on flowers have adverse effects on their fruit yields. This is why plants are quick to shed their flowers, reveals a new study involving both field experiments and plant microbiome ...

This release is available in German. Animals "personally" bring their gametes together – seeking out sexual partners, mating, fertilizing, and reproducing. Plants, however, are sessile organisms and ...

THE author defines his aims in the following words (p. 7):—“The numerous questions which young people ask about plants are best answered by themselves. … To put them in the way of doing this so far as ...

Prior to these field tests, the researchers showed that the amount of nicotine in the floral nectar of wild tobacco influenced pollination by the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta and two hummingbird ...