National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.

So far, microorganisms have been research subjects or contaminants on space stations, but could they assist longer missions?

By exploring the impacts of both drought and wet extremes, our work uncovers how precipitation events, which may not necessarily impact productivity directly, could still cryptically influence resili...

A deleterious mutation in the tomato transcription factor SSP2 was enriched during domestication. Repairing the deleterious mutation in cultivated tomato by base editing leads to compact growth and ea...

Meehan and colleagues study access to running water in large US cities since 1970, finding that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This disproportionately impacted households of color and generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations.

The National Herbarium of New South Wales has more than 1 million plant specimens including rare species, Australian and Pacific flora, historical and type specimen collections. Access the digitised i...

Plants have colonized lands 450 million years ago. This terrestrialization was facilitated by developmental and functional innovations. Recent evo-...

Hornworts are the only land plants with a pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism. This study presents evidence that some of the key components in algal pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms ...

Earth’s rainy days are changing: They’re becoming less frequent, but more intense. Vegetation is responding.

Small molecules activate a defense mechanism shared by all flowering plants

Bolívar Aponte Rolón, Elizabeth Arnold, Mareli Sánchez Juliá, Sunshine A. Van Bael This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Flowering plant…

YouTube video by Science IRL

Genetic diversity in locally adapted, weedy, and invasive plants

Permafrost in Europe’s mountains has warmed by more than 1 °C per decade in certain places, matching the levels in Arctic lowlands. The strongest warming occurred at cold bedrock at the highest elevat...

The Department of Environmental and Plant Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University (https://www.ohio.edu/cas/plantbio/) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professo...

Adam Frew, Yuxiong Zheng, Zhenyu Wang, Yanrong Fu, Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Plants rely on part…

Nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) concentrations might reflect the strategies described in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) due to their dependence on photosynthesis and respiration. We examined if N...