Plant Science

Benson Hill says the merger will speed up the development of more sustainable and healthier plants to help address the increasing global demand for food.

Missouri Botanical Garden garden researchers delve into the center's conservation efforts in Madagascar. Ecologist Adam Smith studied the island's deforestation and found that all of Madagascar's rainforests could disappear by 2080. Botanist Jeannie Raharimampionona explains how MoBot's protected sites in Madagascar aim to combat this prediction.

Rising temperatures in tropical forests along the equator are threatening cacao trees -— the source of beans used in making chocolate. Benson Hill, a St.…

More than 400 researchers, entrepreneurs and investors are expected to attend Ag Innovation Showcase this week, the 10th year it’s been hosted by the…

Someday, farmers may no longer need to use fertilizer for their crops. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have recently made a crucial step…

Researchers Liz Haswell and Ivan Baxter spend most their time trying to understand how plants function. But the two plant scientists sometimes step away…

St. Louis has the highest concentration of plant scientists in the world. But the places where they conduct their experiments aren't necessarily the most…

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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 27, 2013 - There’s an old saying that you learn something new everyday. And for this writer,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 23, 2013 - Tom Laurita had options when picking out a location for his company.Laurita is part…