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Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.
Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ferns. The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create ...
Like the clubmosses (see Plant Evolution I), the ferns are early vascular plants that ... and as epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — on tropical rainforest trees. On the Waldbauer trail you ...
according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that challenge our conventional understanding about the evolution of ...
Northeastern University researchers resurrected an extinct plant gene, turning back the evolutionary clock to pave a path forward for the development and discovery of new drugs. Specifically ...
And plant evolution expert Daniel Nickrent does ... The familiar holiday species often infest stately trees such as oaks or poplar: In winter, when these trees are leafless, the parasites ...