Recent efforts to understand how functional traits are organized across land plants have revealed notable patterns across the leaf economic spectrum 5,6, but whether such a high degree of organization ...

Typically thought of as a bendy black confection, the root form of licorice has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat a range of conditions. Now, a new study shows that a compound ...

Researchers suggest that plants spread worldwide thanks to root adaptations that allowed them to become more efficient and independent. As plant species spread, roots became thinner so they could more ...