PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case ?) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and ...

The Trichoderma Associated Space Tomato Inoculation Experiment is a study where researchers are investigating tomato plant growth patterns in a microgravity environment, project co-investigator and ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Thanks to collaboration between the Iowa Space Grant Consortium, Iowa 4-H and the Iowa State University Integrated Pest Management Program, Iowa youth will participate in a global research effort to ...

Image: The Plants in Space habitat aboard the International Space Station. A unique science project designed to sow the excitement of scientific discovery in students is sprouting this week aboard the ...

Someday, astronauts may grow food efficiently in space and use plants to clean spaceship air, thanks to a two-year experiment scheduled aboard the International Space Station. The next space shuttle ...

The film discusses the essential needs for plant growth, highlighting the importance of water, light, minerals, air, and warmth. It presents various experiments demonstrating how these elements affect ...

The demand for native plants used in rewilding projects is surging across the country, creating a supply gap that plant nurseries are racing to fill. Conservation organizations, government agencies, ...

Paco Calvo, a researcher at Spain’s University of Murcia, is on a mission. According to New Scientist, he’s attempting to build a solid scientific framework for understanding “plant neurobiology,” ...