Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — A study out of Washington State University found plants can sense when they're being touched, even though they don't have nerves. One scientist heading up the study says the new ...

In most plants and animals, including humans, mitochondria are inherited exclusively, or nearly exclusively, from the mother.

Scientists have identified genes that allow plants to pause root growth during environmental stress and restart it when conditions improve.

A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process that allows wild plants to breed across species -- one of plants' most powerful evolutionary forces.

Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make more sounds when thirsty or under other kinds of stress.The research ...

Mum is not the word because apparently plants make noises, according to researchers from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. A recent study found that some plants actually make noises when they are ...