A colorized electron microscope image of a tomato leaf stoma. Credit: Photohound/Wikimedia Commons Stomata, or plant tissue's equivalent to pores, allow for the exchange of gasses: carbon dioxide ...

This prompts the stomata to close to prevent moisture loss ... and fruiting vegetables like tomatoes and strawberries. While past research centered on light exposure during cultivation, Shikoku ...

Biologists have uncovered a surprising connection between the way plants grow and how they defend themselves against ...

Q. I have a space of about 200 square feet that I want to plant with annual plants that are useful for food and cuttings, or ...

A more detailed understanding of the natural anti-insect protections of tomato plants can lead to better pest-management strategies ...

Compared to synthetic drugs, natural plant extracts offer the advantages of being suitable for long-term consumption, having ...

One important plant that can be sowed now is tomatoes. It can be extremely rewarding to get big red tomatoes on a vine in the summer, but this crop can often be challenging to grow. However ...

Humans have been domesticating plants for thousands of years ... after the potato: the tomato. Researchers in the laboratory of Sebastian Soyk, assistant professor at the DBMV, used a genome ...

Bhagalpur: In an agricultural breakthrough, Bhagalpur is poised to revolutionise vegetable farming with the introduction of ‘Brimato', a single plant that grows both brinjals and tomatoes.