As the global population continues to grow, innovative solutions are needed to ensure food security. With limited land and ...

A painstaking analysis of land-plant evolution has revealed how to engineer crops that produce a popular antioxidant ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the first plants existed. They traced its origins back to an evolutionary ...

Through genome analysis, the scientists uncovered surprising insights into yerba mate’s evolutionary history – particularly ...

Yerba mate, along with tea and coffee, is one of the world's most popular caffeinated beverages. Widely consumed in South ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

This new research explored the origin and evolution of the biochemical machinery that builds lignin, a structural component ...

Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human ...