While its large brilliant flowers attracted early horticultural attention, this summertime stunner’s path to being a successful urban tree has not always been easy.

A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego has developed a method to produce a special class of plant hormones, known as strigolactones, at unprecedented levels using ...

The study highlights how ABA and auxin, another key hormone, work together to shape ... the more we understand the mechanisms that control plant growth, the closer we are to designing systems ...