An international team of archaeologists has discovered the earliest evidence of humans processing plants for food found anywhere in the world. The findings...
Scientists from the University of Illinois have boosted crop yields in a revolutionary procedure that genetically enhances photosynthesis. The UN claims...
A team of scientists led by Prof. Stacey Harmer of the University of California, Davis, has discovered how sunflowers use their circadian clock, acting...
Sunflowers. Image credit: Betty Jo Tindle / CC BY-SA 3.0.
The one fact about plants that most people probably remember from school is that they use sunlight...
A group of scientists from Europe has harnessed new photonics technology to develop superhydrophobic, antibacterial metal surfaces, taking us a step closer...
A team of paleontologists led by Oxford University researcher Prof. Liam Dolan has discovered the oldest known population of plant root stem cells in a...
Taxonomy experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the estimated 18,000 new species named...
An international team of botanists has described a new subgenus of plants and named it after the notable American ornithologist James Bond.
Left: Alternanthera...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Stephan Getzin of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Germany, has announced the exciting...
Neanderthals lived mainly on mammoth and rhino meat, as well as some plant food, says a team of researchers led by Prof. Hervé Bocherens from the University...
A team of paleontologists has identified two ancient flowers trapped in the mid-Tertiary Dominican amber as belonging to a previously unknown species of...
Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), depend on an animal diet when grown in nutrient-poor soils. They sense the arrival of...
A multinational team of scientists has sequenced genomes of a wild pineapple relative, the red pineapple (Ananas bracteatus), and two cultivated varieties...
A team of Thai botanists has announced the discovery of what they say is a new species of wild banana.
Musa nanensis: male inflorescence. Image credit:...
According to a new paper in the journal Current Biology, honeybees may select caffeinated nectar over an uncaffeinated but otherwise equal-quality alternative....
Nearly 30 percent of 1,478 known cactus species are on the verge of extinction, according to a new report published yesterday in the journal Nature Plants.
Cacti...
In 2013, a rare and beautiful variety of orchid appeared in cultivation under the commercial trade name ‘Big Pink.’ Now, research by Dutch and Australian...
