Use a sharp spade to divide a clump into several sections and immediately replant the divisions. Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Bronze Veil’ is a species that is lovely in the border, especially when mass ...

Nicoletta Cannone an ecologist at the University of Insubria, Italy, and her colleagues measured the growth of Antarctic’s only two native flowering plants, Deschampsia Antarctica, also known as ...

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Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...

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It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make other useful substances, such as cellulose found in the ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...