Every year when spring officially arrives, people spend more time in the great outdoors as the season gears up. Whether you’re looking for help identifying plants along your morning hike or designing ...

If you’ve tried to identify a plant using a botanical key, it can be a daunting process, full of unfamiliar terms. Gardeners can wonder, “Why is it important to understand botany?” Plant ...

Isabel Marques' call to update traditional botany teaching beyond plant morphology seems to devalue the importance of taxonomy and systematics (Nature 520, 295; 2015). The identification of new plant ...

Scientists can now rapidly read the genetic code of an organism, even a plant, in the field. A portable real-time DNA sequencer speeds the process of reading the genome—an organism’s complete set of ...

For a limited time, this plant ID app for iPhone costs just $14.97 for life. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals If you love gardening or you’re just curious about nature, Plantum is a must-have addition to your ...

SEBASTOPOL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LeafWorks, a trailblazing botanical genomics and testing company for natural products, today announced the expansion of its DNA-based species identification ...