Generally when we consider the many plants around us, we imagine them efficiently using the electromagnetic radiation from the Sun via photosynthesis in their leaves — pulling carbon-dioxide from the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Plants have evolved fiendishly complicated metabolic networks. For years, scientists focused on how plants make secondary metabolites, the compounds that plants produce to ...

Harry Beevers, 80, a UC Santa Cruz biology professor who made breakthroughs in the understanding of the cellular structure of plants, died April 14 at his home in Carmel after a brief illness. A ...

Do plants attacked by herbivores produce substances that are most effective against attackers in a targeted manner, or are herbivore-induced changes in a plant metabolism random, which could thwart ...

Photosynthesis is the pivotal process through which plants convert light energy into chemical energy, thereby sustaining almost all terrestrial ecosystems. At the heart of this mechanism is the enzyme ...

Plant Physiology, Vol. 164, No. 2 (February 2014), pp. 499-512 (14 pages) The target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase, a master regulator that is evolutionarily conserved among yeasts (Saccharomyces ...

A research team found that arginine metabolism has a vital role in regulating gametophore shoot formation in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Arginine metabolism boosts to make a plant body complex, ...

That plate of colorful vegetables, whole grains, and plant proteins looks like the picture of health. And in many ways, it is. But for some people, certain components in these seemingly virtuous foods ...

Researchers have rekindled interest in the significance of plant metabolites for human health and wellness. Plant bioactive ...

Do plants attacked by herbivores produce substances that are most effective against attackers in a targeted manner, or are herbivore-induced changes in a plant metabolism random, which could thwart ...