Plant biology | UC Davis

A row of conical fir trees dusted with snow.

Christmas Trees’ Distinctive Aroma Helps Ward off Pathogens and Pests

by Liana Wait
November 25, 2024

Seeds on a head of rice against a background of vegetation.

Making High-yielding Rice Affordable and Sustainable

by Liana Wait
November 20, 2024

Green leafy plants

How Plants Become Bushy, or Not

by Liana Wait
August 06, 2024

A woman in a blue lab coat is seen inside a greenhouse surrounded by plants.

Plant Biologist Siobhan Brady Named HHMI Investigator

by Liana Wait
July 23, 2024

A man in a blue lab coat and glasses works with a plant in a lab setting.

Plant Biologist Venkatesan Sundaresan Wins 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture

by Liana Wait
July 17, 2024

Yellow and green structures in the center of a yellow cup with black and green lines radiating from the center.

How Plants Sense Scent

by Liana Wait
April 25, 2024

A field of grains with orange-red seed heads.

Researchers Identify Microbes That Help Plants Thwart Parasite

by Liana Wait
March 26, 2024

A brown-skinned man wearing a white lab coat and glasses stands over a tray of green seedlings.

Plant Biologists Identify Promising New Fungicides

by Liana Wait
February 29, 2024

At left a bald man with a short beard and glasses, to right a woman with shoulder length red hair. Both are wearing dark blue lab coats. They are surrounded by tomato plants.

How Tomato Plants Use Their Roots to Ration Water During Drought

by Liana Wait
January 02, 2024

A man with short brown hair and a short beard examines an ear of corn surrounded by corn stalks.

A Mixed Origin Made Maize Successful

by Andy Fell
November 30, 2023

A woman with short brown hair and glasses wearing a white lab coat looks at some sunflowers in a brightly lit indoor setting.

How Sunflowers See the Sun

by Andy Fell
October 31, 2023

Green seedlings grow in a circular plastic dish on a lab bench.

Chloroplasts Do More Than Photosynthesis: They’re Also a Key Player in Plant Immunity

by Liana Wait
October 25, 2023

A close up of seagrass with a inflatable boat in the background

Genome Study Shows Recent Spread of Eelgrass

by Andy Fell
July 21, 2023

Circadian Clock Controls Sunflower Blooms, Optimizing for Pollinators

by Andy Fell
January 17, 2023

Green rice plants in paddy fields with palm trees in the background.

Rice Breeding Breakthrough to Feed Billions

by Andy Fell
January 10, 2023

A mass of mung bean sprouts growing vertically with a light blue background.

First Complete Structures of Plant Respiratory Proteins

by Andy Fell
January 03, 2023

A stand of poplar trees seen from ground level looking up, against a blue sky

Understanding Growth Regulation by Protein Degradation in Trees for Bioenergy

by Andy Fell
September 14, 2022

Group of four people facing camera, outdoors

Unlocked Enzyme Structure Shows How Strigolactone Hormone Controls Plant Growth

by Andy Fell
April 28, 2022

Molecular model of enzyme, pea plant and some smoke

Plant Smoke Detectors Evolve as Hormone Sensors

by Andy Fell
February 11, 2022

Photo of Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, a small, flowering weed

Study Challenges Evolutionary Theory That DNA Mutations Are Random

by Emily C. Dooley
January 12, 2022

Field of wheat under blue sky

Breeding Plants With Genes From 1 Parent

by Andy Fell
November 19, 2021

Why Sunflowers Face East

by Andy Fell
August 10, 2021

Two male scientists with rice plants in a greenhouse.

Drought Changes Root Microbiome

by Andy Fell
July 22, 2021

Three Grants for Biofuels Research

by Andy Fell
June 29, 2021

Discovery Increases Likelihood of Growing Food Despite Drought

by Jules Bernstein
May 18, 2021

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