To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — ...
From diverse shapes and sizes to complex dispersals and defenses, seed traits hold the secrets to how plants adapt, reproduce, and survive. Yet, when it comes to global plant trait data, there is a ...
To make authoritative information about all known plant species widely available and further efforts to protect Earth's biodiversity, Google Inc. and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have separately ...
More than 9000 species of plants have had sections of their genomes sequenced as part of the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life (PAFTOL) project led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the UK. This is ...
The N.C. State Cooperative Extension Service recently updated its online Poisonous Plants database to include a whopping 624 different entries — occupying every category of plants, from trees and ...