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Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

A new species of monkey flower has been found in Scotland, the product of a tryst between two foreign flowers. But this is no ordinary love child. While almost all such hybrids are sterile — just as ...

The discovery of a new, rare species of monkey flower by professor Jason Sexton provides clues as to how new species are born. Sexton, who researches the monkey flowers that grow wild throughout ...

North American columbine flowers have evolved by lengthening to match the mouthparts of polinating birds and insects. Flowers evolve in a predictable fashion to match the mouthparts of pollinating ...

The overarching goal of this recently funded research project is to understand how the structure of genetic and developmental pathways shapes the trajectory of phenotypic evolution on a phylogenetic ...

The South African Restionaceae make up a highly diverse group of genera displaying several reductive trends in the configuration of the flower, especially in the gynoecium. In this paper the floral ...

Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the origin and early ...

Flower generalization has often been viewed as a suboptimal solution to managing the needs of different visitors. Researchers have developed a framework to examine flower-animal interactions and how ...

We now know what the ancestor of today’s flowers looked like, thanks to scientists who used computer models to re-create the plant that lived 140 million years ago. Before now, we didn’t understand ...