Reproduction literally took off. Interaction between insects and flowering plants shaped the development of both groups, a process called coevolution. In time flowers evolved arresting colors ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction ... plants use insects and other animals ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move.

This is the first instalment of a new gardening series that examines the secrets of success in plant parenting. Read more at ...

and other flowering plants. But this sort of botanical x-ray can be applied to anything that sprouts. “Any researcher can use it,” says project lead Daisuke Kurihara, a plant cell biologist at ...

From toddlers in daycare to seedlings in forests, young organisms tend to get sick more easily than adults—a phenomenon that ...

Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, ...