Electrical signalling plays a pivotal role in how plants perceive and respond to their environment. Rapid electrical impulses, including action potentials (APs) and slower variation potentials (VPs), ...

For more than a century, scientists treated forests as collections of individual trees responding in parallel to the same ...

Imagine if a plant in a farmer's field could warn a grower that it needs water? Or if a farmer could signal to plants that dry weather lies ahead, thereby prompting the plants to conserve water? It ...

Discover how plants can talk by sending chemical signals. Learn about their communication methods and implications.

University of Warwick researchers discover rapid, jasmonate-driven, early immune response in plants using breakthrough ...

Vesna Bacheva, a postdoctoral associate in CROPPS, tests part of a prototype system designed to detect a stress response in a gene-encoded reporter plant. Credit: Cornell University Vesna Bacheva, a ...