Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

Update: The game has been deleted from the Roblox platform due to copyright issues. Inspired by games like Plants Vs. Zombies ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

Just like in yeast and animal cells, vacuoles in plants are responsible for breaking down unwanted cellular components. At ...

C4 photosynthesis represents a striking example of convergent evolution, where multiple plant lineages have independently modified an ancestral C3 pathway to enhance carbon fixation efficiency. This ...

Urban environments have become hotspots for understanding how rapid evolution occurs in response to extreme environmental changes. These habitats exert selective pressures on resident organisms that ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...

New research shows fungi diversified nearly a billion years ago, shaping soils and ecosystems long before plants colonized ...

Duke’s decision to close its herbarium threatens to uproot a legacy of scientific discovery, climate research and education that has shaped the field of botany for generations.