The Shapiro Administration, in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or ...

Scientists have shown that one portion of the petunia’s genetic code can direct the creation of molecules behind the plant’s ...

Buckeye scientists have a scintillating idea for recycling nuclear waste to generate even more energy from the abundant, air ...

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

From horticulture to hardwoods, Pennsylvania's diverse plant industries have a new base of support with the launch of the ...

A research group led by Professor Wei Li from the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho ...

Organization leaders say the event will feature presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on experiences centered around ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Pennsylvania growers who tend flowers, Christmas trees, hemp, fruits and vegetables all work in different industries, but ...