Although the ancient Briton's woad, from Isatis tinctorio L., has been differentiated from the indigo dye indoxyl-β-D-glucoside, from the tropical legume genus Indigofera, it has never been ...
They planted indigo and soon began dying fabric with dye produced from the plants. “Dyeing lets us forget the bad things” for a while, Mori said. “It’s a process of healing for us.” ...
Robot Identifies Plants by 'Touching' Their Leaves Nov. 13, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by 'touching' their ...
Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...
Some people plant seeds in pots or in gardens to germinate. Plants in the wild have many different ways of scattering their seeds, this is called ‘Dispersal’. The wind disperses lots of seeds ...
Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...