A moss gene previously thought to have been inactive actually plays a key role in its evolutionary success, researchers from ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

The most unexpected finding was the presence of mycorrhizal fungi, which are known to depend on plant partners. These fungi ...

A new discovery from researchers at Northeastern University has uncovered previously unknown aspects of plant evolution, with major implications for creating new lifesaving drugs. The researchers' ...

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern ...

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...

An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...

According to a study from McGill University, plants collected centuries ago and preserved, flattened, in herbaria around the ...

Sunlight provides the energy needed for photosynthesis and growth, but it also exposes plants to harmful ultraviolet-B (UV-B) ...