Research teams from INRAE, the University of Clermont Auvergne and the CNRS have reconstructed 10 ancient genomes ...
Morning glories may be getting caught in an evolutionary tug-of-war between surviving climate change and attracting ...
The pigments that give beets their red color may have helped a major group of flowering plants repeatedly adapt to dry ...
University of Calgary researcher Sam Yeaman and his team have determined in a recent study that there are some key genes that are particularly important for how plants respond adaptively to ...
Successful reproduction is crucial for the survival and continuation of any species. For plants, effective seed dispersal is ...
Aquatic plants are specialized evolutionary groups adapted to life in water. They play critical roles as food and medicinal supplies (e.g., lotus root and foxnut) and industrial raw materials (e.g., ...
The pigment betalain that gives beets their red hue is only produced in the flowering plant group Caryophyllales. Drought tolerant species such as ...
Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...