Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is particularly prevalent in plants, where it facilitates the evolution of new ...

Researchers have decoded the chromosome-level genome of Houttuynia cordata, an important East Asian medicinal plant known for ...

Wild tomatoes from the Galápagos Islands are reversing evolution and regaining an ancient chemical defense after millions of ...

High in Fiji s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door apartments. Rival ...

Monash University scientists have uncovered how invasive plants like white clover rapidly adapt to new environments, ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

Frontier Developments is walking back the use of generative AI in Jurassic World Evolution 3 following backlash from fans.

Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting back to ancestral traits ...

Evolution Running Backwards? That's What This Unlikely Organism Appears To Be Doing Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same ...

One such behavior is the dynamic opening and closing of millions of tiny mouths (called stomata) located on each leaf, through which plants "breathe." In this process they let out water extracted ...