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A recent study has unveiled a paradox across Eurasia: while vegetation has visibly flourished in recent decades, the ...

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.

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University of California Riverside research reveals plants use sugar and thermal signals to detect daytime heat.

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

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

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