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 ...

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 ...

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

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