What is your favorite flower? One common answer is the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Although they are popular for ...

A team of researchers has uncovered plant remains in the abdomen of a sauropod, providing direct evidence of their ...

Seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms) share several developmental characteristics, including lateral branching and phloem formation from the cambium. Gymnosperms are perennial woody plants with a ...

Angiosperms—usually deciduous trees (oaks, birches, and maples) that produce seeds protected by fruit—are considered hardwoods. Gymnosperms, on the other hand, are softwoods, include such ...

"Our survey data has given us new insights into the evolutionary relationships between wood nanostructure and the cell wall composition, which differs across the lineages of angiosperm and gymnosperm ...

Gymnosperms, unlike angiosperms, don’t bear flowers or fruits and produce seeds at the surface of scales or leaves, or at the end of stalks, forming a cone-like structure. The distribution of ...

The diversity of fruits and seeds is enormous all over the world, and they play a core role in all aspects of biology including human life. Despite a long history of carpological research, many ...

Flowerless gymnosperms, such as conifer and ginkgo, ruled the Jurassic world before their flowering rivals, the angiosperms, became dominant. What caused the fall of one and the rise of the other?

Perhaps angiosperms were more adaptive to changing climate; used nutrients more effectively; or gymnosperms — non-flowering seed plants — were already in decline by the Early Cretaceous ...

Gymnosperms represent some of the oldest plant life in geological history. But once angiosperms appeared, they relatively quickly started replacing their older peers within the span of only a few ...