NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the station’s Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants.

Thanks to our low student-faculty ratio and ample funding for undergraduate research, nearly any student who wants to do research with a botany faculty member can. In recent years students have worked ...

As is well known now, California is in its fourth year of drought. As a result, mass mortality of trees and shrubs is happening more quickly than researchers can quantify. Rapid changes in vegetation ...

THIS is a pleasant little book, and will be read with interest by many who enjoy a country ramble or rural life from the naturalist's point of view. The authoress displays a firsthand acquaintance ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The creation of the NYBG Institute of Economic Botany (IEB) was intended to help revitalize the field of economic botany and ethnobotany, ...

The article details how top students employ effective study techniques for academic success. Employing these efficacious techniques in your study schedule can navigate your path to the toppers' list.

Many chefs grow their own herbs, but Diane Forley also is a budding botanist who studies them. After starting her career at 16 and working in restaurant kitchens for more than a dozen years, Forley ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FOR a botanist the question was intriguing: why are flowers not incestuous? They all carry, close together, both male and female parts ...

Researchers have documented the first known recovery of naturally formed nanoscale monazite from a living plant, potentially ...

Walking along the streets of Warje, amateur botanist Shrikant Ingalhalikar found the ambarella tree (spondias dulcis), a native of Sri Lanka. PUNE: Walking along the streets of Warje, amateur botanist ...