plant-biology

A 2025 research article explores how a single molecule can maintain plants in a youthful state, potentially impacting agricultural longevity.

Bean plants use an immune receptor to detect caterpillar saliva and release volatile chemicals that attract parasitic wasps, a defense mechanism now understood at the molecular level.

This paper introduces PlantMarkerBench, a multi-species benchmark for evaluating language models' ability to interpret evidence for plant marker genes from scientific literature across four species. It highlights that while frontier models perform well on direct evidence, they struggle with functional and indirect evidence types.