Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to exchange nutrients with plant roots, acting as critical climate regulators as they draw down ...
Bridget Hatfield (Technical Services Manager, Kemin Crop Technologies): “Nematodes are incredibly diverse and often very small roundworms. Fruit growers should care about nematodes because some ...
Don't have nightmares, but some horrible creatures come out on to your face at night - and doctors can't agree whether they ...
Cypress tree forest on the seafloor off Alabama reveals how extreme storms and rising seas transformed the coastline 75,000 years ago.
Smith, C.A. and Pramanik, S. (2026) A Pilot Study on How Microplastic Polluted Rainfall Infiltrates Commonly Eaten Leafy ...
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers has been awarded the 2026 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her work uncovering ...
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Tomato under microscope

Watch how a tomato plant, flower, and fruit look like through a microscope.
With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...
Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new way ...
An international team of researchers found that iron limitation, through its effects on growth and trace metal usage of the microalgae that live within coral cells, could exacerbate the effects of ...
Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...