Recent efforts to understand how functional traits are organized across land plants have revealed notable patterns across the leaf economic spectrum 5,6, but whether such a high degree of organization ...

International research led by Colorado State University suggests that studying root function in tropical forests could improve predictions of climate change. In a study published Feb. 28 in New ...

Researchers have discovered a protein that seals plant roots to regulate the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil, the discovery could help develop climate proof crops that require less water ...

When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist, forests represent a much more complex world consisting of different species. This diversity of ...

Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce the genetic diversity of crops. At the same time, ...

It is easy to study what you can see. Researchers know a lot about how plants work aboveground, but what happens out of sight under the surface may control more than we once thought. It is easy to ...

In Watertown, South Dakota, there is a new kind of health care taking root. At Root Function Wellness, the focus isn’t on quick fixes or endless prescriptions, it’s on understanding why you’re feeling ...