Az Klymiuk (University of Manitoba) receives/has received funding from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-CRSNG), the TAWANI Foundation (through the Field Museum of ...

Botanists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants using genomic data from more than 9500 species. The newly compiled tree of life will help scientists piece together the ...

Douglas E. Soltis is at the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. A number of botanical innovations accompanied ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It can be disappointing when, after making you wait for months on end, the flowering plants in your garden exhaust their blooms in a few weeks ...

Chris Wyver is a PhD student at the University of Reading. He receives funding from the Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership and BBSRC. Laura Reeves works for the University of Reading. she ...

With the holidays upon us, adding some merriment to our indoor spaces with flowering plants can be a welcome break from the increasingly graying landscape outside. Flowering plants help us liven up ...

Having agapanthus in your garden can easily get on your nerves, considering the plant's erratic flowering behavior. For instance, it can bloom with such jaw-dropping flowers one season, that you can't ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

It has not been clear how sperm DNA is compacted in the pollen of flowering plants. Research has now revealed that sperm chromatin, which is a complex of DNA and proteins, is packaged by a special ...