Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

On a warming planet, your food supply depends on crops that can survive heat, drought and fast spreading disease. Now ...

Spruce bark beetles use the plant defense compounds in spruce bark as a protective mechanism. After feeding, they metabolize ...

Plants know how to defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms. In turn, pathogens have sensors to detect such defense mechanisms. What happens when plant and pathogen are locked in that duel?

Almost 400,000 plant species exist, and every one of them is threatened by organisms ranging in size from microscopic fungi and bacteria all the way up to elephants searching for something to eat.

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be. Plants, like ...

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell membrane at pathogen infection sites—offering critical new insights into ...

P. Hunziker et al., Herbivore feeding preference corroborates optimal defense theory for specialized metabolites within plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.118 ...

Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Adam Frew receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the British Ecological Society.

A team of UK researchers, led by the University of Sheffield and Queen Mary, University of London, has discovered how plants protect their leaves from damage by extreme sunlight. The new findings ...

Scott N. Johnson, James M. W. Ryalls, Craig V. M. Barton, Mark G. Tjoelker, Ian J. Wright and Ben D. Moore 1. Plants, notably the Poaceae, often accumulate large amounts of silicon (Si) from the soil.