Plant ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology focussed on the distribution and abundance of plants, and their interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment.

Nature staff discuss a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Researchers identify GmRVE4d as a gene that delays soybean flowering and maturity by repressing GmPRR5a. This finding highlights GmRVE4d as a potential breeding target for improving soybean adaptation ...

The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life ...

D. Thomas Minton is a marine biologist and SF writer who lives in the mountains of British Columbia. He assumes this is not ...

A proposed beamline at SESAME in Jordan could give African researchers regular access to synchrotron science while building ...

Results could help researchers to develop painkillers that are safer and more effective than existing treatments.

The ink could be useful for medical tattooing, but more tests are needed before it is widely available.

The basis and physiological functions of senescence have been challenging to establish as senescent states encompass varying hallmarks in disease and ageing, and too little is known about which cells ...

A gene regulatory network is a set of genes, or parts of genes, that interact with each other to control a specific cell function. Gene regulatory networks are important in development, ...