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California redwoods 'killed' by wildfire come back to life with 2,000-year-old budsNew buds are sprouting through the charred remains of California redwoods that burned in 2020, suggesting the trees are more resilient to wildfires than thought.
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Mysterious hybrid species discovered hiding among 144-year-old 'zombie seeds' from secretive experimentScientists participating in one of the longest-running active scientific experiments have discovered a surprising hybrid plant hiding among seeds buried at a secret location on a university campus since 1829.
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Why do leaves change color in the fall?Plants draw on a suite of pigments to produce energy from sunlight, and in the fall, some become more obvious than others.
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Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs allowed flowers to thrive in a post-apocalyptic worldScientists have discovered flowering plants were largely unscathed by the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago, allowing them to take advantage of the new, dinosaur-free planet.
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Mystery of 'living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years finally solvedThe Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it's survived — almost unchanged — since the time of the dinosaurs.
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'Once again, innovation and proliferation ended with catastrophe': The environmental disaster of plants taking over the worldThe evolutionary leap that allowed plants to live on land 400 million years ago upended Earth in a way unseen since the Great Oxidation Event over 1.5 billion years earlier.
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Mysterious bamboo regeneration baffles scientists ahead of once-in-a-century blooming eventHenon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it regenerates.
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Genetically engineered pink pineapples are flying off shelves: What gives them their distinctive color?The food giant Del Monte has created a genetically engineered pink pineapple that owes its rosy hue to higher concentrations of a pigment called lycopene.
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Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warnData collected by the International Space Station has revealed a small fraction of leaves in the world's tropical rainforests are already exceeding peak temperatures, and scientists warn that this could increase.
