Next week, a new instrument designed to measure plant stress will be plugged into the International Space Station. Once operating, the device will deliver unprecedented data about drought conditions ...

When you’re planning a garden — whether it’s a vegetable bed to plant this spring or an entire home landscape you will develop over years — the first step is to take measurements. “It’s critical to ...

When water is scarce, plants can close their pores to prevent losing too much water. This allows them to survive even longer periods of drought, but with the majority of pores closed, carbon dioxide ...

Scientists are working toward a better way to monitor plant health from above the ground without disturbing their environment. The breakthrough improves the measurement of solar-induced chlorophyll ...

Researchers have developed a new method to reliably measure plant circadian clocks and how different plants respond to day and night, and that these circadian rhythms change as they age. It's widely ...

Packed alongside supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station on an otherwise routine SpaceX resupply run, something rather special is headed to orbit next week: a ...

In school, we learned that plants use sunlight to synthesize CO2 and water into products like carbohydrates. Now, a research team is finding another use for photosynthesis. By using satellite data to ...