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The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion ...

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As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Cinthia Singleton's husband, Matthew, planted a century plant outside their home 20 years ago. Now, only a year after he died ...

Thirty years ago, a vision took root in Armenia to reforest a scarred, post-Soviet landscape and rebuild a greener, stronger ...

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