Sugar and spice make everything nice, especially in holiday treats. But do you know where sugar and spice come from?

It's become a custom at our office Christmas party to do a team quiz, followed by a jolly round of The Twelve Days of ...

The potent allspice oil, extracted from the Pimenta dioica plant, holds a secret power beyond its culinary prowess: it's a ...

Sugar and spice make everything nice, especially in holiday treats. But do you know where sugar and spice come from? Plants ...

Expert share 10 expert plant choices for winter hanging baskets, from crocuses and pansies to primroses and violas.

Spices help to make the holidays taste and smell wonderful. The distinctive aroma radiating from a batch of my grandmother's lebkuchen or springerle fresh from the oven brings back pleasant memories ...

Adding a teaspoon or two of ground African allspice to the flour mixture of your bread dough can transform a basic loaf into ...

Plant molecular biology is the study of the molecular basis of plant life. It is particularly concerned with the processes by which the information encoded in the genome is manifested as ...

With extended droughts, wildfires, and extreme heat, choosing landscape plants in California can be a challenge. When you use native California plants, you can be sure they’ll survive your local ...

Plant adaptation to life on land included gaining the ability to obtain nutrients from barren terrestrial substrates. New work pinpoints a small, conserved genetic core with extensive rewiring of ...

Warm spices of nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and cardamom are natural partners to sweet potatoes. Instead of a streusel topping, pecans are warmed up with a chile powder. Dale Gray is the author of ...