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Category - Taxonomy & Evolution
Alun Salt
Claude AI
World’s Largest Flowers at Risk of Extinction, Scientists Warn
The iconic giant Rafflesia flowers are disappearing at an alarming rate, according to new research published in Plants, People, Planet.
A.I. Assistant
Phylogenetics Reveals the Importance of Biodiversity to Food Plants in Mexico
Tracing the phylogenetic patterns in native edible plants of Mexico shows how indigenous cultures have sustainably utilized regional botanical diversity for millennia.
Fi Gennu
Angiosperms and Insects: A Dynamic Partnership Across Millions of Years
Unveiling the secrets of pollination through time: How the age-old alliance between flowers and pollinators continues to shape the natural world.
Victor H. D. Silva
Can unexpected changes happen in the process of plant domestication?
This fascinating investigation takes us on a journey through the evolutionary history of the squash plants to understand how domestication has modified the characteristics of these plants and their relationships with...
Ingrid N. Gomes
Unexpected Discovery of Endangered Aquatic Plant in Japan
A pond in Ishikawa Prefecture has suddenly produced nearly ten thousand globally endangered carnivorous plants, challenging prior beliefs that the species was extinct in the wild in Japan.
The Roots of Western European Cork Trees Can Be Found in East Asia
Research explores how these trees braved climatic shifts, morphological changes, and geographical hurdles to shape modern-day Western Eurasian oak communities.
How does a plant give up on love?
Over the past 100,000 years some populations of Daphne kiusiana have been moving from finding partners to self-pollinating.
New Study Reveals Horticultural Plant Lythrum virgatum Could Help the Invasive Plant Lythrum salicaria Become Even More of a Problem
Researchers discover that the horticultural plant L. virgatum has higher fitness and broader habitat tolerances than the invasive plant L. salicaria, potentially leading to rapid evolution and adaptation.
Can digital assessment of endangered plants outrace extinction?
AuBuchon-Elder and colleagues demonstrate how botanists can use automated assessment tools to assess the extinction risk of plant species and highlight the need for increased digitization efforts before rapid assessment...
Dale Maylea
Botanists say the largest amber-preserved flower is a new species
The flower, first discovered over 150 years ago, has yielded new clues from its pollen.
When Birches Become Wasps
Birches may have developed white bark to warn herbivores that they're not good to eat.
Pansies undergo high-speed evolution when pollinators disappear
French researchers used 'resurrection ecology' to compare 2012 pansies with plants from twenty years earlier to see the evolutionary changes in the flowers over time.
Lessons from magnolias about past climatic events and plant evolution
Chinese scientists used data from Magnolia plastid genomes to peer back millions of years to understand Cenozoic climatic changes.
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