Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

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yellow agave flower sprout from the giant flower stalk against a clear blue sky
The death bloom of a century plant

Agave americana, also known as the century plant, has evolved for a dry desert life. For 30 years, these succulents photosynthesize, grow and store sugar in their center, called the heart. Then a “death bloom” uses every last ounce of...

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yellow agave flower sprout from the giant flower stalk against a clear blue sky
The death bloom of a century plant

Agave americana, also known as the century plant, has evolved for a dry desert life. For 30...

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4 students stand in front of marshall porterfield, all in different space and NASA shirts, one carrying a plastic jug with a white fungus growing over a mycoponics tube inside. Grow tents line the background on each side.
Mushrooms in space: Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond

Porterfield founded MycoGravity — the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology...

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Bailey Arbic in front of Kansas City Current sign.
From playing on the pitch to perfecting it for World Cup athletes

It’s a field she knows well, a field she has run up and down countless times. Now she is...

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Four people in a greenhouse stand next to a lush growth of petunia flowers.
Plants employ rare method to produce valuable chemical compound

Land plants have spent nearly half a billion years honing a vast array of metabolic skills that...

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a woman wearing wires and carbon dioxide sensors is lit from behind, her breath making a trail of white clouds in front of her mouth
Engineering space to breathe: How novel carbon dioxide sensors could improve air circulation in space and life on Earth

NASA’s new generation of Artemis missions will take humanity back to the moon and beyond....

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Two hands are shown holding brown compost material and one hand is shown holding green compost material.
Composting made easy

Are you curious about composting, but unsure how to do it — or if it even makes a...

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