There are always lots of things to learn as a gardener, and many of them can only be learned through doing—through actually getting out there and getting your hands dirty. But there are some things ...

Here in New England winter is long, especially for gardeners. We want to be outside in the garden but most days we can’t really do much. I compensate by learning about gardening from books. I recently ...

In a first global plant conservation assessment, a multi-institutional research team used the power of open-access databases and machine learning to predict the conservation status of more than ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Recent research by a team of Japanese scientists has uncovered an intriguing aspect of plant behavior: communication. Joining us today is Sarah Gillespie from Gillespie Florists to share more ...

Plants are constantly exposed to a wide array of biotic and abiotic stresses in their natural environments, posing ...

Machine learning can pinpoint "genes of importance" that help crops to grow with less fertilizer, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. It can also predict additional traits in ...

Father of genetics Gregor Mendel spent years tediously observing and measuring pea plant traits by hand in the 1800s to uncover the basics of genetic inheritance. Today, botanists can track the traits ...

Recent advances in deep learning have transformed plant pathology by enabling rapid, accurate detection and classification of plant diseases. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), enhanced by transfer ...