Plants need water, oxygen and warmth to grow and develop properly. If the temperature of the environment is too hot or too cold, few seeds will germinate. The temperature at which the greatest ...

In animals, the signaling molecules used within stem cell niches are often the same used to organize growth ... players in the development of complex organisms ranging from plants to humans.

New research from an international team of plant biologists, led by researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems ...

The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants ... animals are also converting semiarid regions into deserts, a process known as desertification. Population ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The world population hit 8 billion people today, accelerating the global extinction crisis for animals and plants imperiled by population growth’s effects on habitat, water, air, and ...

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal life ... to sustainable development and human wellbeing.

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom ...

An individual’s growth and development is affected by the genes ... Chromosome mutations can also occur in plants. In many crop plants, for example in wheat and barley, the cells have complete ...