Plants need water, oxygen and warmth to grow and develop properly. If the temperature of the environment is too hot or too cold, few seeds will germinate. The temperature at which the greatest ...

Animal proteins are considered higher quality than plant proteins because they have the essential amino acids needed to build ...

In animals, the signaling molecules used within stem cell niches are often the same used to organize growth ... players in the development of complex organisms ranging from plants to humans.

The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

Plants survive climate change using genetic variations. Scientists studied Marchantia polymorpha to find key adaptation ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the first plants existed. They traced its origins back to an evolutionary ...

I frequently receive questions from gardeners about the best timing for various gardening practices. Questions such as when is the best time to plant tomatoes or when is the proper time to treat the ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants ... animals are also converting semiarid regions into deserts, a process known as desertification. Population ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The world population hit 8 billion people today, accelerating the global extinction crisis for animals and plants imperiled by population growth’s effects on habitat, water, air, and ...

This protein seems to have first appeared in a unicellular ancestor of plants, and genetic reshuffling events eventually created the protein ARF. This protein is now a key player in the development ...