When it comes to hoisting water, plants are real power lifters. For a tall tree, slurping hundreds of liters of water each day up to its leaves or needles, where photosynthesis takes place, can be ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 57, No. 12 (2006), pp. 3349-3357 (9 pages) In flooded soils, the rapid effects of decreasing oxygen availability on root metabolic activity are likely to generate ...

Holly James asks, what are causing a flowering cherry and a plum to ooze sap from their trunks? It doesn’t seem too bad but we are concerned it might get worse. Oozing sap is called gummosis and it ...

For weeks, Robert Emma wondered about the plants growing beside his new house. The flora, as many as 40 discrete plants, was "intimidating," the amateur gardener said, with thorns and jagged leaves ...