16-03-29 Like most annuals, lettuce plants live out their lives in quiet, three-act dramas that follow the seasons. Seed dormancy gives way to germination; the young plant emerges and grows; and finally in the climax of flowering, a new generation of seeds i...

16-03-09 Paleobotanists have found fossils of perhaps world's earliest herbaceous angiosperm plant from the mid-Jurassic period (more than 164 million years ago) in north China's Inner Mongolia. 中国古植物学家在内蒙古发现了可能是世界上最早的中侏罗纪时期（1.6...

16-02-04 shed 小屋 shrubs 灌木丛 plant pots 花盆 cuttings 插条 rake 耙 hoe 锄 spade 铲 seeds 种子 lawn mower 割草机 bulbs 鳞茎 shears 大剪刀 hose 软管 compost heap 堆肥堆 sprinkler 洒水器 fertilizer 肥料 grass cuttings 碎草屑 dung 粪 weeds 杂草...

14-07-31 Exotic pests, shrinking ranges and a changing climate threaten some of the world's most rare and ecologically important plants, and so conservationists establish seed collections to save the seeds in banks or botanical gardens（植物园） in hopes of...

14-02-13 Birds that hoard（贮藏） food for a rainy day better be sure that there are no great tits around to spy on where they hide their reserve of seeds and nuts. So says Anders Brodin and Utku Urhan of the University of Lund in Sweden, who found that grea...

13-12-09 Nasa is to try growing vegetables and herbs on the moon to see if humans could one day live there. 美国国家航空航天局决定在2015年去月球上种植蔬菜和草本植物，以此来测试月球是否适合人类生存。 The seeds will be sent to the moon in the Moon Express Land...

12-07-17 There's no honor among thieves when it comes to rodent robbers -- which turns out to be a good thing for tropical trees that depend on animals to spread their seeds. Results of a yearlong study in Panama, published online in Proceedings of the Natio...

12-06-18 In Israel's Negev Desert, a plant called sweet mignonette（木犀草） or taily weed uses a toxic mustard oil bomb to make the spiny（多刺的） mouse spit out the plant's seeds when eating the fruit. Thus, the plant has turned a seed-eating rodent into...

11-07-06 The EU has banned the import of some Egyptian seeds and beans after fenugreek was linked to the E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France. 德国和法国爆发的大肠杆菌疫情被发现与葫芦巴有关，欧盟因此禁止从埃及进口部分种子和大豆。 The European Food Safety...

10-09-25 Contrary to a thousand face cream（面霜，雪花膏） adverts, the secret of fertility might not be eternal（永恒的，不朽的） youth. Research by the ecologist Dr. Carlos Herrera, a Professor of Research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientfi...