Increasingly extreme weather, such as droughts and floods, is damaging crops around the world, making it more important than ever before to understand how plants grow.

Taking the pulse of plant growth

Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why, but finding that out could change the way we grow things

As a farmer, you probably think about plant roots more than most. Even so, they can be easy to overlook. They’re hidden underground, after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your fields, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth. Scientists discovered about 15 years ago that genes […] Read more