Deserts seem unforgiving. However, the fragile flowers of cacti are evolving quickly.
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Genetic signatures help uncover the echoes of the past events in the histories of jewelweed populations, and understand their genetic implications for conservation.
Plants changed the atmosphere, built soil and created ecosystems that allowed animals like us to thrive. But first they had to make their way from the water to the land.
New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.
What you probably don’t know about the humble daisy.
The hard science behind these dainty flowers.
Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
Evolution has created plants with the power to kill and heal.
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.
Each season, mango growers across Australia watch helplessly as millions of mangoes fall to the ground too early. Here’s why – and how science can help.
An archaeologist reveals what she learned from sifting through a 200-year-old rat nest recovered from a historic Philadelphia home.
A researcher explains the benefits of a relatively new farming practice called paludiculture.
Decades of experimentation revealed slow ecological processes and long-term interactions that have international scientific value.
It could be a sign of what’s to come.
Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.
75% of Mount Kilimanjaro’s indigenous plants have been wiped out over the last century.
Psychedelic plants and fungi grow all over the planet.
If you are keen to see your cabbage tree palm flower, be aware it may take 150-170 years. If you can wait that long, it usually happens between August and October.
Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Fellow in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University
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Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
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Glasstone Research Fellow, Plant Science, University of Oxford
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Research Scientist in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor in Entomology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer and Researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor in Biophysics, University of Pretoria
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PhD, University of Tasmania