Whether it’s brightening your home office with indoor plants or growing herbs outside to cook with, having plants can dramatically increase your quality of life. However, there’s almost ...

Bengaluru: With the Dasara festivities heading for a climax with Ayudha puja and Vijayadashami, flower and fruit prices in Bengaluru have surged dramatically. Jasmine is now selling at Rs 1,200 ...

How much of Earth’s plant diversity is distributed across islands, and how might this affect conservation efforts? It emerges that islands contain a disproportionately large share of global ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire ...

Plant breeding is the production of plants by selective mating or hybridization. It is the traditional mechanism for producing new varieties of plants for horticulture and agriculture. The ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

It may be time for fertilizer. “Plants get their food from photosynthesis, but they need some other micronutrients and macronutrients that are critical in creating enzymes, regulating water ...

Ivy: So why do some plants stay green all year round? Do they not like to lose their leaves? Posey: Evergreen trees don't lose their leaves. That's because they are made differently with a waxy coat.

So you can look after them easier. Plants fall into four categories: With seeds or without seeds; flowering plants, conifers, ferns and mosses. Ivy: Four categories? So does that mean I have to do ...