"If we have an accurate picture of the evolution of a flowering plant," says Walter Judd, "then we can know things about its structure and function that will help us answer certain questions ...

Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change ... To survive, an organism must be well suited to its environment. For example, a plant in the Mojave Desert needs to make do with very little ...

Now, a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced bioinformatic methods.

(Northwestern University) A Dinosaur expert goes green — with a deep look at plant evolution Quirks and Quarks19:12A Dinosaur expert goes green — with a deep look at plant evolution ...