Background: Plants may be stuck in one place, but the world around them is constantly changing. In order to grow and flower at the right time, plants must constantly collect information about their ...

Plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to perceive and respond to light, thereby orchestrating a complex network of gene regulation that influences growth, development and stress adaptation.

Plant scientist Dario Leister and his team are investigating how cyanobacteria adapt to rapidly changing light intensities.

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...

It’s factually correct that light is crucial for photosynthesis, but research from Osaka Metropolitan University uncovers an ...

The molecule cAMP, which plays essential roles in mammalian cells, is less well understood in plants. In a new Science ...