Small, fertile, rugged and fueled by an expansive appetite, the species, he says, is “an exemplary invader, a perfect invader ...

Spanning roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Cambodian-Thai border, the 60,000-hectare (148,300-acre) Samlout Multiple Use Area is part of the greater Cardamom Mountain Range and straddles the ...

Promoting mutually beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes that enhance nutrient acquisition by plants could improve crop production without increasing inorganic-fertilizer use.

That work saved about 200 Braunton’s milkvetch plants — almost all of which have ... meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.

By examining bacteria that live alongside the plants, they also track whether these microorganisms remain safe and beneficial for human health. One key study, Plant Habitat-07, looks at how lettuce ...

A treasure herb that has fed, healed, and connected communities for centuries, most of us would have memories of Bichu Buti as that prickly plant we were warned to avoid while wandering the hills—a ...

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The collective forests, about 45 kilometers from the Gaoligongshan nature reserve where the Skywalker hoolock gibbon's southern population lives, serve as habitats for the species and vital income ...

serve as habitats for the species and vital income sources for local villagers. Cultivating Chinese black cardamom (Amomum tsaoko), also known as caoguo, a shade-loving plant, in these forests has ...