From mastodons to ancient rhinos and giant deer, large herbivores have been shaping Earth's landscapes for millions of years.

A study on beetleweed shows that autopolyploid plants with different chromosome sets can coexist, reshaping how scientists ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in ...

Flower shapes, colors, and seasonal blooms also occur as a form of convergent evolution in plants. One of the most common examples provided for convergent evolution is flight. Though birds ...

This means that plants, microorganisms, fungi, and humans (if you don’t want to lump them in with animals) all exhibit characteristics of convergent evolution. In fact, some common characteristics ...

When an altered form of a virus is injected into a banana sapling, the virus' genetic material quickly becomes a permanent part of the plant's cells ... products. For example, Australian ...

In this paper we emphasize the importance of considering phylogenetic information for the design and analysis of comparative studies, relying on examples from comparisons of woody plants from cerrado ...

floriferous plants. Examples of suitable species that benefit from pinching out in this way include cosmos, tagetes, snapdragons, petunia and fuchsia as well as dahlias. Pinching out is typically ...