Indoor crotons with colorful leaves can be a stunning addition to your home. While they are visually attractive, crotons require the right care to survive indoors. With these simple tips, your crotons ...

Dell’Arte is welcoming adjunct faculty and Cirque du Soleil star Michelle Matlock back to Blue Lake to present her original show, “The Mammy Project,” at the Carlo Theater, 131 H St., Blue ...

Between his day job and bands and dances at night, daddy was never there, and mammy took us everywhere. “I assumed that daddy started us off playing football, but Mary did, taking us and half of ...

Eli Lilly LLY.N plans to spend at least $27 billion to build four new manufacturing plants in the U.S., the drugmaker said at a Washington press conference on Wednesday, as it grapples with the ...

Whole-foods and plant-based diets prioritize plant foods and minimize processed foods and animal products. These diets are associated with several health benefits, such as reduced risk of diabetes ...

How plants perceive and respond to heat stress via chloroplast is obscure. Here, the authors present evidence that an RNA editing component undergoes heat-dependent condensation, which in turn ...

Traditional plant stands seem to come in two styles: those mid-century-modern ones that stay low to the ground and fit just one big pot, and the more bookshelf-style bamboo units with a few ...

One of our cotemporaries says, very irreverently, of the Croton, that it is “played out,” and recommends resort to Artesian wells. The aqueduct which conveys the Croton to the city is ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

Plants need water to make their own food. This is called photosynthesis. It happens in plant leaves. Plants also need carbon dioxide from air and sunlight to make their food. Slide 1 of 3 ...