The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

KYIV, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for a ‌meeting ​with Donald Trump to hammer out the most ‌sensitive issues in a future peace deal with Russia, such as control ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...