Scientists use genomic data to resolve the phylogeny of zygnematophyte algae and pinpoint several emergences of multicellularity in the closest known relatives of terrestrial plants. An international ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Until now, it was believed that plants of the grape family arrived at the European continent less than 23 million years ago. A study on fossil plants draws a new scenario on the dispersal of the ...

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend ...

More than 9000 species of plants have had sections of their genomes sequenced as part of the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life (PAFTOL) project led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the UK. This is ...

Transcriptomic analyses of 20 plant species helped identify genes involved in the evolution of seed production, offering ...

Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has ...

Quansheng Fu, Xianhan Huang, Lijuan Li, Yi Jin, Hong Qian, Xinyuan Kuai, Yaojun Ye, Hengchang Wang, Tao Deng, Hang Sun Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 28, No. 12 ...

Thermogenesis is present in plants such as 'Macrozamia communis', which raise the temperature of their reproductive organs when in bloom to attract pollinating insects. Thermogenesis is a process by ...

An international team of scientists led jointly by the Universities of Göttingen and Cologne has deciphered the evolutionary history of zygnematophytes. Their results reveal the internal relationships ...