Plants need light to grow. However, due to excess nutrients and/or the absence of herbivores less light can reach lower vegetation layers in grasslands. Consequently, few fast-growing species dominate ...

Propagating a snake plant does not require a greenhouse, a grow light, or a degree in botany. With one healthy leaf and a ...

A new study has used a series of innovative field experiments to show how plants combine circadian clock signals with environmental cues under naturally fluctuating conditions. Much of what we know ...

This experiment is designed to study biotic/abiotic factors affecting seedling growth. Biotic factors are interactions between the living components of a community (i.e., predation, competition); ...

Low-light plants have adapted to their shady environments both indoors and in their natural habitats. Most low-light plants don't need to be watered very often, making them even easier to keep alive.

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...