Plants are more perceptive than we often realize. They can sense raindrop impacts on their leaves, which sparks an instant internal defense mechanism. This reaction, including the activation of ...
High plant extinction rates are projected for southern Europe, the western U.S. and southern Australia by 2100, posing risks to plant species like these eucalyptus trees growing in Australia.
Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...