Chloride toxicity is a growing threat to salt-sensitive crops, causing oxidative stress, membrane damage, and cell death.

Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the human receptor for sweet tastes, which deepens our understanding of how we taste things. These findings, which were reported in Cel l, could also ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School suggests that different genetic forms of autism may lead to similar patterns in brain activity and behavior. The findings were recently ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.

Credit: ESO/C. Ginski et al “While our team has now observed close to 100 possible planet-forming disks around nearby stars, this image is something special,” said Dr. Christian Ginski, who is a ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 439, No. 1/2, Part I: Special Issue Crop Roots and Rhizosphere Interactions (June 2019), pp. 201-217 (17 pages) Aims To investigate genotypic differences in the plasticity of root ...

A Democratic representative from Georgia reintroduced a bill to create term limits for Supreme Court justices.

Visitors to a centuries-old tourist site in eastern China were sent scrambling after hundreds of roof tiles came loose and cascaded more than two stories to the ground.

Stephanie Smith, Ive De Smet, Introduction: Root system architecture: insights from Arabidopsis and cereal crops, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1595, Root growth and ...

Roots will be greatest in size once pollination begins. Once the plant enters reproductive growth, root growth halts, and the corn plant focuses all of its resources on fertilization and grain yield.

Those bare spots in your yard could be due to take-all root rot. Here's what you should know about the turf disease and how to get rid of it.