If you have a yard full of fallen leaves every autumn, you’re not alone. Instead of bagging them up for trash day, you can put those leaves to work in your garden. Fallen leaves are more than just a ...

Whether plants make complex, divided leaves like those of ferns or tomatoes instead of simple, single leaves such as blades of grass is controlled by whether a set of genes, called KNOX1, is switched ...

I had a wide range of autumn choices for my column this week. Migrating birds, buck deer, fall mushrooms, last-of-the-year flowers and insects all would be good subjects. But I chose a single leaf ...