Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they uncovered an evolutionary mystery.

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A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...

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For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

Byproducts of car exhaust disrupt pollination by degrading the floral scents that insects use to track down their favorite plants, according to new research. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 8, 2024 ...

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With air temperatures down in the 20's away from Louisville this morning and a couple other conditions being just right, we saw some frost flowers! I have to give a huge shout-out to Astrid Richter ...