Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

A moss gene previously thought to have been inactive actually plays a key role in its evolutionary success, researchers from ...

Urban environments have become hotspots for understanding how rapid evolution occurs in response to extreme environmental changes. These habitats exert selective pressures on resident organisms that ...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced naturally during cellular metabolism often cause oxidative damage to cells. However, these molecules also play an important role in normal cellular signaling.

Divergent evolution leads to variation among populations and thus promotes diversification. In plants, adaptation to different soils, pollinator guilds, and herbivores is thought to be a key ...

An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...

The ever-growing human population requires stable and durable crop yields to sustain sufficient food production. A plethora of pests, including bacteria, fungi and insects, threaten crop production, ...

Moss is usually thought of as one of nature's simplest plants. It carpets rocks, clings to tree trunks and quietly survives ...

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...