Typically, plants grow in crowded environments, where neighboring plants shade each other while competing for light. The presence of neighbors varies over...
A research team led by Kyoto University and Osaka Metropolitan University botanists has described a new species in the genus Lilium from Japan.
Lilium...
An international team of scientists has created the tree of life for almost 8,000 (about 60%) genera of flowering plants (angiosperms). This achievement...
Sugarcane, the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, has shaped global history, trade and geopolitics, and is currently responsible for 80% of sugar...
Biologists at the University of Surrey have investigated inter-species variation in particulate matter accumulation, wash-off, and retention on ten broadleaf...
Chia (Salvia hispanica) is one of the most popular nutrition-rich foods and pseudocereal crops of the mint family Lamiaceae. Chia seeds are a rich source...
Near the river Tigris, outside the ancient city of Kalhu, known today as Nimrud, northern Iraq, a brickmaker once prepared a clay brick for the construction...
Obesity is a major risk factor for various chronic diseases, especially lifestyle-related diseases. Therefore, finding a protective substance against obesity...
Bees are the most significant pollinators of flowering plants. This partnership began approximately 120 million years ago, but the uncertainty of how and...
A team of U.S. scientists has sequenced and assembled the genome of the Gossypium herbaceum cultivar Wagad, representing the first domesticated accession...
Aerial parts of plants arrange their organs around stems, and this arrangement defines their structure. In most existing plant species, organs emerge at...
Most living angiosperms (flowering plants) are pollinated by insects, and the new reconstruction of the ancestral pollination mode of angiosperms suggests...
Scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History and elsewhere have sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries...
In new research, biologists at Tel Aviv University recorded ultrasonic sounds emitted by tomato and tobacco plants inside an acoustic chamber, and in a...
Diverse branching forms have evolved multiple times across the tree of life to facilitate resource acquisition and exchange with the environment. As an...
Spiranthes hachijoensis occurs in Kyushu, Shikoku, Chubu, and Kanto districts of Japan.
Spiranthes hachijoensis in Ena-shi, Japan: (a) inflorescence; (b)...
Researchers have produced a high-quality chromosome-level genome of the faba bean (Vicia faba), one of the earliest domesticated crops.
The faba bean (Vicia...
Amber exquisitely preserves the delicate organs of fossil flowers for millions of years. However, flower inclusions can be rare and usually do not exceed...
Scientists in Japan have generated a highly contiguous genome assembly of the red variety of Perilla frutescens, an important herbal plant with hundreds...
