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 ...

Moss is usually thought of as one of nature's simplest plants. It carpets rocks, clings to tree trunks and quietly survives ...

A new discovery from researchers at Northeastern University has uncovered previously unknown aspects of plant evolution, with major implications for creating new lifesaving drugs. The researchers' ...

A moss gene previously thought to have been inactive actually plays a key role in its evolutionary success, researchers from ...

Urban environments have become hotspots for understanding how rapid evolution occurs in response to extreme environmental changes. These habitats exert selective pressures on resident organisms that ...

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 ...

According to a study from McGill University, plants collected centuries ago and preserved, flattened, in herbaria around the world could become valuable allies for monitoring genetic changes ...

Divergent evolution leads to variation among populations and thus promotes diversification. In plants, adaptation to different soils, pollinator guilds, and herbivores is thought to be a key ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is particularly prevalent in plants, where it facilitates the evolution of new ...

The ever-growing human population requires stable and durable crop yields to sustain sufficient food production. A plethora of pests, including bacteria, fungi and insects, threaten crop production, ...

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...