Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...