A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work ...

A research team from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with China Pharmaceutical University, integrated whole-genome assemblies of 122 vascular plant ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

Aquatic plants are specialized evolutionary groups adapted to life in water. They play critical roles as food and medicinal supplies (e.g., lotus root and foxnut) and industrial raw materials (e.g., ...

Researchers led by Núria Sánchez-Coll, CSIC researcher at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), have characterized for the first time the function of AtMC3, a protein of the ...

Plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role in controlling cell differentiation and determining gender in vascular plants, using a fern model. The discovery ...

This book critically reviews advances in our understanding of the biology of vascular epiphytes since Andreas Schimper's 1888 seminal work. It addresses all aspects of their biology, from anatomy and ...

The Turrell Herbarium (MU) contains a geographically and taxonomically broad collection of approximately 340,000 accessioned specimens (with approximately 20,000 currently being cataloged). Though the ...