It even survives the winter by living in the roots of cereal crops like wheat. Farmers sound the alarm over rapid spread of ...

New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

The evolutionary ladder is meant to be climbed one rung at a time with an organism shedding some traits and gaining others on ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

After 40 years of research, scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered how plants use isoprene to defend ...

This evolution was punctuated around 30 million years ago with the emergence of a newer, better way to photosynthesize. While plants like rice continued using an old form of photosynthesis known ...

Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.

Her work with early indigenous North American crops shows that some wild plants respond quickly to clearing, ... /Life sciences/Plant sciences/Plant genetics/ Plant evolution ...

Washington University in St. Louis. (2023, April 10). Early crop plants were more easily 'tamed'. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 04 ...