A new study analyzed pollen from 57 North American plant species, identifying those most nutritionally beneficial for bees, which could inform conservation efforts and wildflower restoration projects.

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the station’s Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants.

Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work shows that many aquatic lineages instead rewire and expand key gene families, ...

Thanks to our low student-faculty ratio and ample funding for undergraduate research, nearly any student who wants to do research with a botany faculty member can. In recent years students have worked ...

The biology department at Connecticut College is committed to providing you with a comprehensive undergraduate biology education. We are proud of our strong faculty research programs in cell and ...