NewsAmerican Society of Plant Biologists Announces New Peer Review Report Policyby American Society of Plant BiologistsNew policy introduces a uniform process for the publishing of peer review reports
NewsNature Is Inventive—the Same Substance Is Produced Differently by Plantsby Max Planck Institute for Chemical EcologyThe production of special plant defense compounds has evolved independently in distantly related plant families
NewsHow to Save Plants from Climate Change? Just Ask Themby University of California - Los AngelesBiologists can infer trees’ desired conditions from their wood and leaves
NewsPlant and Forest Researchers: Do Not ‘Anthropomorphize’ Plantsby Heidelberg UniversityMany attributions in popular publications lack scientific evidence
NewsForgotten Tropical Plants Rediscovered after 100+ Yearsby Pensoft PublishersPlants are being rediscovered thanks to community and citizen science
NewsColonization Influences Worldwide Distribution of Plant Specimensby Florida State UniversityResearchers use herbaria collections to examine the past
NewsPlants Can Distinguish When Touch Starts and Stops, Study Suggestsby Washington State UniversityStudy shows that individual plant cells respond to touch by sending calcium signals to other cells
NewsGene That Confers Seed Tolerance to Salinity Identifiedby Instituto Gulbenkian de CienciaBiotechnology could help farmers deal with inhospitable soils
NewsNew Machine Learning Framework for More Accurate Plant Disease Diagnosisby Nanjing Agricultural UniversityResearchers have developed a new neural network that overcomes the problems of image-based plant disease detection
NewsResearchers Assemble Pathogen ‘Tree of Life’by North Carolina State UniversityThe new tool will provide information on more than 192 described plant pathogen species