Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plant reproduction plays a vital role in our food systems and the balance of ecosystems, yet it remains a complex process. Plants ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Fossil of Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov. showing branches, leaves as well as terminal fruits in different stages of maturity. Scale bars: 1.0 cm. In his vast correspondence with other ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have identified the huge impact of flowering plants on the evolution of life on Earth. Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, ...

Douglas E. Soltis is at the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. A number of botanical innovations accompanied ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international team of scientists has mapped the evolutionary relationships between China's 30,000 flowering plant species, uncovering a distinct regional pattern in ...

Characteristic features of plants, such as their active ingredients or flower color, may have developed through very ...

David George Haskell has a new book on the flowers that put the rain in rainforests and that challenge the teachings of Darwin ...

Never mind the selfish gene – the cellular family history of the oldest living species of flowering plants is marked by enough sex and gluttony to earn a place in Shakespeare’s folio. The powerhouse ...

A 100 million-year-old plant has been ‘caught in the act’ after being encased in amber during pollination. The hardened tree sap preserved a cluster of 18 tiny flowers from the Cretaceous Period with ...