plant biology, evolution

Plants can’t run away from attackers, so they’ve evolved unique immune defenses to protect themselves.

Can seed banks adequately prepare for the future if wild plant populations are already lagging behind in adapting to rapid climate change?

The gene behind a butterfly’s mimicry; the evolution of adipose fins; bacteria and bowel cancer; plants lacking plastid genomes

The genome of Amborella trichopoda—the sister species of all flowering plants—provides clues about this group’s rise to power.

Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.

Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.

Leopold, The Drunken Botanist, Beautiful Whale, and Between Man and Beast

Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.

Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.

How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain

The Dutch artist's sunflower paintings have attracted the attention of doctors and geneticists.

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in ecology, from Faculty of 1000

Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.

Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.

Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.

Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.

A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.

Protein interaction networks in Arabidopsis give clues to plant evolution and immunity.

In discovering their shared ancestry, a distantly related animal geneticist and plant pathologist find a common thread in their work on immune receptors.

There are many ways that epigenetic effects regulate the activation or repression of genes. Here are a few molecular tricks cells use to read off the right genetic program.