Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how genetic drivers influence the evolution of a specific photosynthesis mechanism in Tillandsia (air plants). This sheds light on the complex ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...

The “prickles,” as botanists call them, evolved in roses and other plants thanks to a single gene, a new study found. Prickles likely arose in many plants as a defense against animals that would ...

If you happen to come across plants of the Balanophoraceae family in a corner of a forest, you might easily mistake them for fungi growing around tree roots. Their mushroom-like structures are ...