The Monterey Bay Area Cactus and Succulent Society recently held its holiday party. Society members create this annual event, ...

If you’re trying to stretch your garden budget, winter is the best time to think like a propagator. Before the real cold hits, you can take cuttings from a few reliable plant families and turn what ...

Have you noticed some curly, spiky, gray-green, alien-like plants resting in a shell, hanging from a ceiling, perched on ...

Plant leaf senescence is a highly regulated, genetically encoded process that marks the final stage of leaf development. This complex phenomenon involves a coordinated dismantling of the ...

If you were a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout, you probably heard the adage "leaves of three, let them be" to deter you from getting poison ivy rash. And, while it is true that a poison ivy leaf contains ...

The YABBY gene family comprises plant‐specific transcription factors that play pivotal roles in defining lateral organ polarity and promoting organogenesis in seed plants. These genes ...

A Christmas cactus drops leaves when it's overwatered or underwatered. Keep soil slightly damp with good drainage, and water ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...