More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane ... chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who is also a member of the Purdue Center for Plant Biology.

Hidden underground, roots are basically the most undervalued part of a plant. But there is so much more to the important role ...

Officials at the plant said the drone attack punched a large hole in the new containment structure's outer cover and exploded inside ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

The Ukrainian government is seeking solutions to repair the containment vessel at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

1), microplastics move through spaces between plant cells and can also accumulate inside tiny hair-like structures, called trichomes ... Leaves with a longer growth duration and the outer leaves of ...

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

Biologist Thomas C. Wilson, a PG&E employee, explained that the refuse consists of reinforced concrete tri-bars — huge things ...