There are always lots of things to learn as a gardener, and many of them can only be learned through doing—through actually getting out there and getting your hands dirty. But there are some things ...

In a first global plant conservation assessment, a multi-institutional research team used the power of open-access databases and machine learning to predict the conservation status of more than ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Here in New England winter is long, especially for gardeners. We want to be outside in the garden but most days we can’t really do much. I compensate by learning about gardening from books. I recently ...

New research challenges the long-held assumption that brains are required for learning, suggesting plants may process information in unexpected ways.

Scientists at UC Davis used artificial intelligence to help plants recognize a wider range of bacterial threats — which may lead to new ways to protect crops like tomatoes and potatoes from ...

Recent advances in deep learning have transformed plant pathology by enabling rapid, accurate detection and classification of plant diseases. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), enhanced by transfer ...