A new research published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany tries to explain how plants sense gravity, and how they direct or signal...
It has not been clear how salt halts the growth of the plant-root system, until now. According to an international study published in the journal Plant...
Meet the amazing, beautiful and weird mammals, birds, insects, fishes, arthropods, sponges, amphibians and crustaceans discovered in 2012.
Lesula monkey...
An expedition to the mountains of the NZ South Island has added two species of forget-me-nots to the flora of the island country.
Myosotis chaffeyorum...
Macrozamia, a genus of cycad found only in Australia, is now believed to have arrived inland far more recently than initially thought.
The MacDonnell Ranges...
A survey of the extensive fruit and seed collections from the Middle Eocene of the Messel fossil site in Germany has revealed 140 genera, representing...
A team of evolutionary biologists has discovered that some plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles.
Flowers of the Arum family: Amorphophallus hewittii...
A team of scientists from the Institute of Cell Biophysics and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy...
A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages.
The moss Physcomitrella...
Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...
