One strange marsh plant can keep itself near room temperature even in freezing weather. Here’s the biology behind its ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

Behind the stillness of desert landscapes, cacti appear to be changing in unexpected ways. The cactus on your windowsill may ...

The MSU Plant Biology Teaching Conservatory and Greenhouse is a facility designed to showcase a wide botanical collection to the general public for free. Yet, few students know about the evolution ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...

The stench like death drew excited visitors to the Franklin Park Zoo yesterday. It was Pugsley, a 5-foot-?1-inch-tall Amorphophallus titanum, better known as ?the corpse flower. “It smells like a dead ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered certain proteins may be the key to saving plants' lives when ...

Photorespiration is a cellular conversion process in which plants release carbon dioxide and consume oxygen when exposed to light. Until now, it has been considered an especially wasteful by-product ...

Season after season, year after year, springtime comes. The sun shines, the baby birds sing, and the flowers bloom. These are all experiences we associate with spring. But why? Why is it that flowers ...

Exactly two years after he last bloomed, the IU biology department’s six foot, seven inch corpse flower — “Wally” to his friends — opened up again in the Biology Building greenhouse on E Third St.