It is an inconspicuous plant with a great big scientific name. This is one that has found its way out of Europe and Asia, far into the New World and Australia, as a common weed, and now thrives on ...
The team's research, conducted on mouse-ear cress — scientific name Arabidopsis thaliana, pictured — and fava beans, or Vicia faba, revealed that sugars, along with maleic acid, a chemical involved in ...