Maps of spatial patterns of angiosperm diversity (PD (a), adapted from (Lu et al., 2018)) versus palynological diversity indices S (b), d (c), Dr ...

A research team has discovered a new tissue in plants that plays an essential role in seed formation by regulating the flow of nutrients into the seed. The team used their findings to increase the ...

An Egyptian movie star who rose to fame in the 1950s planted the seeds of one of Cairo’s best kept secrets: the Mazhar ...

Most energy generators currently employed within the electronics industry are based on inorganic piezoelectric materials that ...

A University of Reading scientist has earned a top prize for his research on flowering plants. Awarded by the Linnean Society of London, Dr Jamie Thompson was announced as the recipient of the Irene ...

As the world witnessed the emergence of flowering plants (angiosperms), new and varied habitats appeared on the ground. This transformation of the plant life probably had some effect on the ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food and shelter.

During the later Jurassic Period, some angiosperms (flowering plants ... crocodile-like animals and several species ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

2010). Five of these seven early plant families are distributed in East and SE Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands. Similar conclusions also apply to the rest of the early lineages of angiosperms ...