The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Tools used for digging up underground plant foods, supporting the idea of a plant-based diet among early humans.

Plant molecular biology is the study of the molecular basis of plant life. It is particularly concerned with the processes by which the information encoded in the genome is manifested as ...

The periderm layers of plants form an outer protective barrier. If the periderm is broken, movement of the gases ethylene and oxygen triggers a healing process. The factors involved in the removal ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

A film looking at different ways of classifying and grouping plants. Suitable for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Early and 1st Level and 2nd level and Foundation level.