Pests of disease make make all the leaves fall from a plant, but it can grow new leaves and recover if the roots are healthy.

Plant roots function by absorbing mineral nutrients and water from the soil and controlling their proper balance in the plant.

Plant roots function by absorbing mineral nutrients and water from the soil and also controlling their proper balance in the plant. This control is exerted by a specialised layer of root tissue ...

Plant biologists have identified crucial components and processes which only developed in seed plants around 350 million years ago to enable fast and efficient gravity-driven root growth.

Stanford scientists have genetically re-programmed plants to grow roots that change how they gather nutrients or water.

Connecting Roots to Leaves: Studying the Diversity of Plant Functions in a Temperate Forest When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist ...

Across plants and animals, host-associated microbial communities play fundamental roles in host nutrition, development, and immunity. The factors that shape host–microbiome interactions are poorly ...