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

A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution connects plant and insect physiology, chemical ecology, molecular ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

With almost a third of cacti species threatened with extinction, a new open-access database of cactus ecology and evolution ...

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

C4 photosynthesis represents a striking example of convergent evolution, where multiple plant lineages have independently modified an ancestral C3 pathway to enhance carbon fixation efficiency. This ...

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

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

With vascular tissue, plant life really started to flourish. By about 360 million years ago, vast forests covered much of Earth. Giant ferns and treelike plants, some over 100 feet (30 meters) tall, ...