Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics' detrimental effects on ...

Evolutionary plant biologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have identified a protein that evolved approximately 500 ...

Inspired by leaves, WashU researchers designed a bioplastic stronger than petroplastics and compostable at room temperature.

Water-relation parameters (cell turgor pressure [P], volumetric elastic modulus [ε] and hydraulic conductivity [Lp]) of individual leaf epidermal cells of Tradescantia virginiana have been determined ...