The team mainly explored the behavior of a plant called 'Arabidopsis thaliana' when it was exposed to a pest attack.

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

In fact, the air we breathe carries traces of a quieter kind of warfare — not against people, but pests. Scientists at ...

FOX 13 Tampa Bay. Sarasota researcher discovers new air plant species. Posted: May 30, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025. Dr. John Clark, a research botanist with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens ...

The cells driving the tissue are a plant-animal hybrid that can gain energy from sunlight in the same way that plants do, the researchers explain in the study. Both animals and plants derive ...

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Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing structures inside them. For animals, that’s mitochondria, which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use.