They are pushing back against researchers who study plant neurobiology and have argued that plants have the ability to learn, respond to their environment, and have a form of consciousness. Plant ...

František Baluška, of the University of Bonn, Germany, coorganized the First Symposium on Plant Neurobiology, calling the field a "new view of plants" that combines physiology, ecology, and molecular ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and ...

Stefano Mancuso, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of plant neurobiology, thinks he has a solution. In his book, “The Nation of Plants,” Mancuso makes the case for planting ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens, understanding the plant’s immune response is of ...