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 ...

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 ...

A new study unveils the most comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary history of flowering plants to date. The research analyzed 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species ...

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 ...

This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right before his Aug. 1 start date, Tiley and colleagues published a Perspectives ...

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 ...