Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s strangest experiments.

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events — and therefore largely unpredictable. But an international ...

Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

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

A new study involving an international team of researchers has found that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth's continents. The discovery was made by linking ...