Plants

New sensing techniques can detect drought tolerance in ancient relatives of wheat and barley. Making it possible to use these traits to breed new food crops for a warmer world

A new approach predicts how plants respond to fire, helping scientists, land managers and the community protect thousands of species from biodiversity loss

Fossil pollen preserved in rocks for 56 million years provides new insights into the consequences of carbon-fuelled global warming

Public spaces across Australia are being planted with beautiful, practical, native Woody Meadows

Discovering chemicals that affect plant circadian rhythms could improve crop yields – bringing us a step closer to ‘chronoculture’

There are still thousands of Australian plant and fungi species to be described and citizen scientists are contributing to recording our biodiversity

Pollen preserved in rocks for more than 56 million years reconstruct Earth’s major climatic transition that caused mass plant migration

Researchers have bred smaller soybean plants with the same yield, raising the possibility that smaller crops could grow more food from less land in our changing climate

Unlike us, plants can’t head to the fridge for a midnight snack, but a new study shows they sense time at dusk to conserve energy produced from sunlight during the day

Researcher Zena Cumpston’s new booklet on indigenous plants encourages their use and appreciation – providing a portal through which a wide audience may begin to understand the complexity of Indigenous scientific practice