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

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

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 ...

Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

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 ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events — and therefore largely unpredictable. But an international ...

Plants with more complex water transport structures are more resistant to drought conditions, making them more likely to survive and pass this characteristic on to their offspring. That’s the ...

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