The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Philip C J Donoghue receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and ...

A big part of evolution is competition -- when there are limited resources to go around, plants and animals have to duke it out for nutrients, mates, and places to live. To figure out how China's ...

Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...