It seems like every garden has a tricky dark corner where no grass will grow and perennials fizzle out. Enter periwinkle: This vigorous groundcover can easily tackle cover almost any space, blanketing ...

In the field of medicine, many life-saving drugs have been developed from plants. In this category, few have been as successfully employed as the rosy periwinkle, Cathanthus roseus. Native to the ...

MIT researchers have discovered a way to manipulate the chemistry taking place in the tiny periwinkle plant to produce novel compounds that could have pharmacological benefits. "Plants are really ...

Scientists have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...

The lovely purple colored sadabahar flowers are known to one and all. A lot of people have this floral plant growing in their garden that not just beautify the space but also radiate positive vibes ...

African periwinkle, a flowering plant native to Africa, is gaining attention for its potential health benefits ...

Rice University bioengineers have found that a type of tumour that forms on plants infected by the soil bacterium Agrobacterium rhizogenes—as natural factories to produce medicines. Rice University ...

QUESTION: In the past, I have planted periwinkles, and they have turned yellow and lost leaves. I just planted some new periwinkles in my garden, and I want to prevent this problem. They look fine now ...

We transformed an alkaloid biosynthetic gene with reengineered substrate specificity into Catharanthus roseus. The resulting transgenic plant cell culture produced a variety of unnatural alkaloid ...

A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Florida's Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for ...