Are giant sinkholes in China's karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they ...

A study is reframing a fundamental question in plant evolution: What made trees possible? Researchers from Cal Poly Humboldt, ...

"Understanding how trees evolved to manage water stress may help us better understand how forests will respond to a changing ...

Hummingbird pollination helped pineapples and other bromeliads evolve into one of the world's most diverse plant families.

how biological diversity and plant evolution help researchers develop healthier crops and wild plants and how AI, bioniformatics, genomic sequencing and other tools are enhancing this research.

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also ...

Scientists found Amazon trees may share defense genes, helping them survive insects and explain extreme rainforest diversity.

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...