In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be. Plants, like ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence showing that reducing plant species diversity alters plant chemical signals ...

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

Nectar represents a complex chemical reward that underpins the vast majority of pollination mutualisms. Composed primarily of sugars, water and a spectrum of non-sugar constituents such as amino acids ...

A plant can’t flee when a hungry animal chomps down on its leaves, stem, or roots. It can, however, release a cloud of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to dissuade predation and cry out to its ...

Plants of the same species can differ considerably in their chemical composition, affecting their smell, taste, and even toxicity. A new study shows that the term “chemotype” has so far not been used ...

You wake up one crisp morning, peek out the window, and see your garden dusted with silver. It looks magical—but your plants might not think so. Early frosts don't just nip leaves and wilt petals; ...

A century-plus of steam-generated power production has shown the importance of water and steam chemistry. Just one boiler tube failure in a conventional unit or heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) ...

Pamela Medina van Berkum collects volatile organic compounds from communities and individual plants in the field at the Jena Experiment field site (https://the-jena-experiment.de/). In her experiments ...