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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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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 ...

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

They live on what they find: game, honey, and plants, including tubers, berries, and baobab fruit. Meat has played a starring role in the evolution of the human diet. Raymond Dart, who in 1924 ...

Focus: The dependence of dinosaur diversity evolution and physiology on plants Museum researchers are investigating the extent to which the evolution of dinosaur diversity and physiology was dependent ...