There’s nothing that evokes the Sonoran desert more than the smell of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) after the rain. These remarkable plants are native to all of the North American deserts, ...

Beatriz Bracamonte comes from a long line of healers, through plant medicines and helping people feel healthy again. Then COVID-19 struck. “When the pandemic hit, obviously I could not have people ...

A creosote bush in Palm Springs may be one of the oldest living things on Earth, scientists said last week. Carbon-14 dating of wood from the bush indicates it is at least 11,000 years old, according ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...

Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that compounds produced by ...

Polyploidy - whole genome duplication - is common among flowering plants, but its role in driving patterns of biodiversity, structuring plant communities, and influencing plant-animal interactions ...

A handful of genes arm the woodrat against the toxic chemicals in its foodstuff, the creosote plant, according to research. It's long been a mystery exactly how the woodrat developed the ability to ...

Early results from a three-site federal study show mice live longer when fed an anti-inflammatory substance found in the creosote bush. The substance extended median lifespan. Whether it allows the ...

Will, an undergraduate in the lab, and Julienne accompanied Rob to southern Arizona and California this spring to investigate pollinator visitation and reproductive interactions between diploid, ...

We tested the Enemy Impact Hypothesis, which predicts that communities of one tropic level are organized by the tropic level above. In the case of gallforming insect communities, the hypothesis ...