In the field of medicine, many life-saving drugs have been developed from plants. In this category, few have been as successfully employed as the rosy periwinkle, Cathanthus roseus. Native to the ...

Scientists have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...

Rice University bioengineers have found that a type of tumour that forms on plants infected by the soil bacterium Agrobacterium rhizogenes—as natural factories to produce medicines. Rice University ...

Scientists have been engineering new genes into plants for a number of years in an effort to expand on naturally occurring medicinal compounds. Now chemists at MIT have gone one step further, using an ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ecologist Christy Brigham stands amid willows hemming Medea Creek in the ...

Periwinkle blight is caused by watering too often. Periwinkle blight (aerial phytophthora) is caused by the fungus Phytophthora parasitica. It’s the number one disease problem for annual vinca or ...

The lovely purple colored sadabahar flowers are known to one and all. A lot of people have this floral plant growing in their garden that not just beautify the space but also radiate positive vibes ...

QUESTION: In the past, I have planted periwinkles, and they have turned yellow and lost leaves. I just planted some new periwinkles in my garden, and I want to prevent this problem. They look fine now ...

This release is available in Spanish. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Florida's Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) have turned ...

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering ...