What was their great innovation? Botanists call flowering plants angiosperms, from the Greek words for "vessel" and "seed." Unlike conifers, which produce seeds in open cones, angiosperms enclose ...

However, the mechanisms by which flowers maintain water balance are poorly understood across angiosperm branches. In a study ...

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

This plant species is considered a living representative of ancient angiosperms and exhibits the ZW sex-determination system. The researchers constructed a highly detailed haplotype-resolved ...

It was heralded as the earliest known angiosperm, or flowering plant, and it is now thought to be roughly 125 million years old. In the following video clips, fossil images, and drawings ...

Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors to recognize pathogens. In a comparative analysis of 808 angiosperm genomes, we reveal that during plant adaptation to diverse special ...

Chennai: Researchers from The Madura College and Madras Christian College discovered a new plant species, Manjolai argyreia ...