Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

This separation of sexes in plants is called dioecy. One reason why dioecy may evolve is because of the negative effects that ...

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...

Planthoppers and leafhoppers not only feed on rice plants but also act as highly efficient vectors for plant viruses, causing ...

Environmental stress events rarely occur in isolation; plants are frequently challenged by dynamic scenarios involving ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

The Purdue Women’s Global Health Institute (WGHI) solicits proposals of outstanding scientific merit addressing translational research of women’s health issues. Proposals focusing on prevention, early ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.