New research shows that plants such as oak and poplar trees will emit more of a compound called isoprene as global temperatures climb. Isoprene from plants represents the highest flux of hydrocarbons ...

Third-year student Seito Ezawa participated in the Plants, People and the Planet course, as part of the Quarter at Aggie Square experience. Last fall, a cohort of UC Davis undergraduate students took ...

A newly published study in the scientific journal Science Advances unveils the deep-time processes responsible for the exceptional plant diversity characterizing the world's mountain regions. While ...

Plants have a lot of burden to bear with how much they're relied on for––from providing the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat to absorbing carbon. But a new study reveals some trouble is afoot ...

In the 1960s and '70s, a series of questionable experiments claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans, that they had feelings, responded to music and could even take a polygraph test.

Winter, Klaus and Holtum, Joseph A. M. 2002. "How Closely Do the Delta 13C Values of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plants Reflect the Proportion of CO2 Fixed During Day and Night?" Plant Physiology, ...

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