Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

The Trichoderma Associated Space Tomato Inoculation Experiment is a study where researchers are investigating tomato plant growth patterns in a microgravity environment, project co-investigator and ...

PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case ?) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Months after growing green and red chile on the International Space Station (ISS), the project’s organizers said they are still seeing success. Engineer and Plant Scientist Jacob ...

When plants take in too much energy, they don’t get fat — they lighten up. They absorb more sunlight than they need to power photosynthesis, and they get rid of the excess solar energy by emitting it ...

"It's really important to look across the plant kingdom because plants have solved so many problems already. Why not read their genomes like a book and try to understand it and solve the problems ...

Science projects are often a cool thing for students to do, but a group of high schoolers on Long Island are taking their experiment a step beyond: They are sending it into outer space. The students ...

STONY BROOK, Long Island (WABC) -- Students at the Stony Brook School on Long Island are "over the moon" about an experiment they are about to launch. The director of the private school's STEM ...

Water collected from solar panels is used to water a small crop of kangkong plants in June 2021 (Renyuan Li). (CN) — With a quarter inch of rain in the spring and summer temperatures in the triple ...