Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

Effective hydrophobic barriers were essential for plants to survive on land, yet how these barriers became specialized across ...

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s strangest experiments.