In the field of medicine, many life-saving drugs have been developed from plants. In this category, few have been as successfully employed as the rosy periwinkle, Cathanthus roseus. Native to the ...

Scientists have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...

Scientists have been engineering new genes into plants for a number of years in an effort to expand on naturally occurring medicinal compounds. Now chemists at MIT have gone one step further, using an ...

Endophytic fungus from from Madagascar periwinkle offers a greener, cheaper way to produce the cancer drug vinblastine.

Periwinkle blight (aerial phytophthora) is caused by the fungus Phytophthora parasitica. It’s the number one disease problem for annual vinca or periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) and can persist in the ...

Rice University bioengineers have found that a type of tumour that forms on plants infected by the soil bacterium Agrobacterium rhizogenes—as natural factories to produce medicines. Rice University ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ecologist Christy Brigham stands amid willows hemming Medea Creek in the ...

What is this plant and its expected lifespan? I fed it with AB synthetic nutrients at a low EC (electrical conductivity) level of 0.8. It was growing well, but lately, the leaves have been turning ...

QUESTION: In the past, I have planted periwinkles, and they have turned yellow and lost leaves. I just planted some new periwinkles in my garden, and I want to prevent this problem. They look fine now ...

This release is available in Spanish. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Florida's Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) have turned ...

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering ...