A major breakthrough could help save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease. Scientists have discovered the exact ...

In tropical latitudes, a dry, hot climate prevails and this encourages a characteristic environment : the bush. Usually the land is barren and there is dust everywhere. Certain animal and plant ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild subspecies of the fruit. In a valuable step forward for banana breeding ...

Spekboom is everywhere, it’s all anyone talks about … what used to be an Angora goat farming town is now a spekboom town,” says field ecologist Rae Attridge. In the past two years, Nat Carbon, the ...

A more unusual sign that your indoor plants might be suffering from draft damage is dull leaf colorations. If once glossy ...

This past week’s cold temperatures definitely got low enough to damage the tropical and subtropical plants that make up our ...

Phosphorus is essential for plant growth and ecosystem productivity. In many natural forests, plants rely on soil microbes to ...

You've likely not heard of the term myrmecophily. Literally meaning ant love, it refers to ants' bonds with other organisms.

Prices on citrus may not be as impacted because disease, hurricanes and development have reduced Florida’s production to about 20% of what it was during its peak, according to AccuWeather, which ...

Plants need food too! In this video I show how to make a super easy fertilizer for your house plants that you can make within minutes. By feeding your plants once a month with this all purpose ...