Plants

A study of tomato and tobacco plants suggests they emit ultrasonic popping sounds when dehydrated or physically damaged.

The mysterious plant, Thismia kobensis, was rediscovered growing a few inches from a forest floor in Japan.

Leaves from the Permian period curled up at night, fossils of symmetrical insect bites show.

Former bug-eating plants, which evolved to feed on animal droppings instead, have a more nutritious diet than their carnivorous cousins, a new study finds.

A new method of using the machinery of photosynthesis to make methane is 10 times more efficient than previous attempts.

Biological activity in some Arctic lakes has ratcheted up dramatically over the past 150 years.

They work the night shift, let their roots die, and fend off thirsty predators to conserve every precious drop.

Tree growth in temperate forests is driven by availability of water and not by temperature as previously thought.

When the stringy dodder plant emerges, it bobs and sways to find the perfect host plant, then sucks the life out of it. See the video.

NASA has released a series of images that illustrate how the Earth's plant growth has changed over the past 11 years.