Plant Science from Cell Biology to Ecosystems
Often archaeologists will examine differences in vegetation to gain information on buried sites. Now, some botanists have reversed this and are using archaeological sites to learn about the effect of nutrient differences on plants.
Scientists used plastomic and biogeographical data to determine when different types of cycads first evolved. Their findings challenge previous ideas about when cycads first appeared and where they come from.
A study of two species of grass in China finds that they have developed different methods to cope with the stress of saline-alkali soils.
The answer is not a simple yes, but research suggests that plants could help clean up the planet in several different directions.
Flavonoids help fine-tune a lupin’s response to low phosphorus availability.
More and more people are using images to get round character limits on Twitter, but some people are getting left behind.
Food is critical for larvae development, so a good insect should lay her eggs away from other competition for food. That’s why scientists were surprised that female hawkmoths chose plants hosting competitors when laying eggs.
Scientists have identified one of the earliest multicellular algae. Their new method could help unlock much more information from Precambrian fossils.
Rather than inherently being ‘male’ or ‘female’, Mercurialis annua can produce flowers as a plastic response to its environment.
You would expect to see flowers of Utricularia australis on display just above the surface of a pond or lake. Now botanists have found open U. australis flowers on a lakebed over four metres below the surface.
Agricultural intensification affects butterfly populations, but so does the abandonment of farmland.
A combination of morphological and physiological traits contribute to drought mortality, along with responses to night warming.
In the prairies of Minnesota, Liatris aspera is almost a real-life phoenix
A new model can help botanic gardens discover where they should source endangered plants when they want to aid conservation efforts.
