The verdict is in on year one of the effort to eradicate hydrilla, the pernicious, choking, aquatic weed that has exploded ...

Why is one little plant so worrisome? Hydrilla is an aquatic plant that spreads quickly and can take over entire wetland environments, threatening the diversity of plants and animals in ecosystems.

The weed, which is subspecies of the hydrilla plant, grows in thick surface mats ... researchers from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station have found that it is presenting a very ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Students could replicate the experiment using cress, but instead of focusing on the soil uptake, give the plants different quantities of fertiliser in their soil to test its effect on growth.

The aquatic invasive plant hydrilla, which can grow up to 2.5 centimetres per day and reach lengths of 7.5 metres, has been detected for the first time in Ontario at the West Cell of Hillman Marsh ...

Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...

Participating youth in this year's "Grow a Monster" challenge learned valuable agricultural skills while experiencing the ...

Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants' capacity to reproduce ... of this mechanism in Chamaecrista ... Hydrilla verticillate (hydrilla), one of North ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

Students could replicate the experiment using cress, but instead of focusing on the soil uptake, give the plants different quantities of fertiliser in their soil to test its effect on growth.