In its native habitat, switchgrass flowered earlier when growing farther north. In experiments with diverse genetic samples, ...

Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

How an ancient UV-B defence mechanism shaped the evolution of the first land plants ...

Moisés Expósito-Alonso, a UC Berkeley professor of global change biology, led an experiment tracking genetic changes in plants across 30 sites worldwide. The findings, published in Science on March 26 ...

Plant roots are much more than a simple absorption organ: they can adjust their structure to better cope with water stress. Scientists studied 284 natural varieties of thale cress (Arabidopsis ...

Plants are consistently threatened by various types of abiotic stress. Strides have been made over the past couple of decades in understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate plant responses to ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how genetic drivers influence the evolution of a specific photosynthesis mechanism in Tillandsia (air plants). This sheds light on the complex ...

Thanks to an experiment started before the Great Depression, researchers have pinpointed the genes behind the remarkable adaptability of barley, a key ingredient in beer and whiskey. These insights ...

"It's really important to look across the plant kingdom because plants have solved so many problems already. Why not read their genomes like a book and try to understand it and solve the problems ...

In a one-of-a-kind experiment led by UC Berkeley researchers, biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of Arabidopsis (above) in various types of climates — from alpine ...