For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

An international team of researchers planted the same genetic lines of Arabidopsis thaliana in outdoor gardens stretching ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

Behind the stillness of desert landscapes, cacti appear to be changing in unexpected ways. The cactus on your windowsill may ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable genetic phenomenon in lycophytes, which are similar to ferns and among the oldest land plants. Their study reveals that these plants ...

The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a ...

An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...