Electrical signalling plays a pivotal role in how plants perceive and respond to their environment. Rapid electrical impulses, including action potentials (APs) and slower variation potentials (VPs), ...

Imagine if a plant in a farmer's field could warn a grower that it needs water? Or if a farmer could signal to plants that dry weather lies ahead, thereby prompting the plants to conserve water? It ...

Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants process external signals. When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many ...

Researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered a surprising mechanism that plants use to regulate their growth — one ...

An ion channel called DmMSL10 functions as a high‑sensitivity touch sensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap, enabling prey touch to be detected and to generate electrical and calcium ion ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

Vesna Bacheva, a postdoctoral associate in CROPPS, tests part of a prototype system designed to detect a stress response in a gene-encoded reporter plant. Credit: Cornell University Vesna Bacheva, a ...