You probably don’t think about plant roots all that much — they’re hidden underground, after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your garden, where ...

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden emergence ...

One of the great mysteries in plant biology is how, given the clouds of pollen released by dozens of plants species all at ...

The potato, a global food staple first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before its worldwide spread from the 16th century, has long presented a puzzling ...

Schematic diagram of anthocyanin biosynthesis and transport in a purple population of tea plants. The numerical markers represent the expression of the gene in the purple sample, with the green sample ...