Red bell peppers are considered the sweetest variety of bell peppers, so if you come across a one that tastes a little bitter ...

The stem of young flower bunches is incised and the sap is collected ... There is a ready national market for both kitul pani and kitul jaggery. Pith from the centre of mature trees provides an edible ...

Farmers can confirm bacterial wilt by cutting the stem of an infected plant and observing a dark, water-soaked pith and a slimy, whitish bacterial ooze. When placed in water, the cut stem may release ...

Other analyzes also showed that OPC is 50 times stronger than vitamin E and that the OPC family from grape seeds also has a higher potential against aggressive, cell-damaging free radicals than OPC ...

Stem cell-powered aesthetic treatments have gotten a bad rep in the past due to ethical concerns, but it turns out that plant-based stem cells are just as effective as human stem cells.

Plants may burrow into the ground and stretch toward the sun, but they're ultimately stuck where they sprout—at the mercy of ...

Scientists have created the first single cell genomic atlas of mature plants' outer armor layer, called the periderm, and its carbon-capturing phellem cells. The findings will be useful in creating ...

A new study provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount of time it takes for that water to flow through them. The information is a ...

A downy woodpecker was pecking on a plant stem. I’m more used to seeing them in trees, and wonder what was up. A: You have sharp eyes and noticed this small woodpecker searching for a plump ...

If you’re a female moth, finding the best plant to host your young may be as simple as taking a close listen. When low on water, some plants make high-pitched clicking noises, inaudible to humans.