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

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 ...

Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. The study of plant evolution includes the study of genetic change and the variations that result in speciation.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

But while plant and animal species generate at least ... but not the unicellular one might have been important for the evolution of multicellularity. That is, certain "special" genes for ...