In the field of medicine, many life-saving drugs have been developed from plants. In this category, few have been as successfully employed as the rosy periwinkle, Cathanthus roseus. Native to the ...

Scientists have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering ...

Rice University bioengineers have found that a type of tumour that forms on plants infected by the soil bacterium Agrobacterium rhizogenes—as natural factories to produce medicines. Rice University ...

What is this plant and its expected lifespan? I fed it with AB synthetic nutrients at a low EC (electrical conductivity) level of 0.8. It was growing well, but lately, the leaves have been turning ...

We transformed an alkaloid biosynthetic gene with reengineered substrate specificity into Catharanthus roseus. The resulting transgenic plant cell culture produced a variety of unnatural alkaloid ...

Periwinkle, also known as Vinca major, makes a beautiful ground cover that doesn't require much attention. That's until it takes over your entire yard (and probably the neighbor's). If you find your ...

QUESTION: In the past, I have planted periwinkles, and they have turned yellow and lost leaves. I just planted some new periwinkles in my garden, and I want to prevent this problem. They look fine now ...

Scientists have been engineering new genes into plants for a number of years in an effort to expand on naturally occurring medicinal compounds. Now chemists at MIT have gone one step further, using an ...

This release is available in Spanish. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Florida's Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) have turned ...