A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible to humans, new research shows. Scientists found that Fritillaria delavayi plants, which live on rocky slopes of China’s Hengduan mountains, match their backgrounds most closely in areas where they are heavily harvested. This suggests humans are “driving” the evolution of this species into new color ...
There are many benefits to eating a plant-based diet, one of the major ones being that you can lose weight. Plant-based diets are becoming increasingly common in Western societies. Some people use the term plant-based to mean a vegan diet. Others might use it to mean a vegetarian diet that includes milk and eggs. People ...
It’s a major event when Hong Kong kicks off its annual Flower Show, which is organized by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department to promote horticulture and the awareness of greening. Every year, hundreds of thousands of local citizens and horticulture lovers all over the world flock to Victoria Park in Causeway Bay to appreciate ...
Neal Stewart and his University of Tennessee coauthors of a study published in Science, explore the future of houseplants as aesthetically pleasing and functional sirens of home health. The idea is to genetically engineer houseplants to serve as subtle alarms that something is amiss in our home and office environments. Stewart, a professor of plant sciences in the UT ...
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