Plants

How did flowering plants, or angiosperms, become the most dominant plant life on land?

Harsh conditions after the dino-killing meteor impact favored fast-growing plants, nudging forests toward a new pecking order

When it takes over ecosystems, this invader causes soils to surrender their carbon and release it as greenhouse gas.

Moss offers clues in the search for how molecular signals direct cell growth.

New research suggests plants are riding a calcium wave just to survive in the increasingly salty, or saline, soils that have become a problem the world over.

Want to know about historical biogeography? Ask Nick Matzke.

Computer Geek, Sean Hoban, uses mathematical and computational tools to preserve endangered plant species.

The beautiful begonia can be found in a wide array of sizes and colors, gracing gardens, brightening living rooms and even flavoring foods.

Unusual blue petunias reveal a molecular trick that plants use to create vibrantly colored petals. The finding might open the door for all sorts of new flower hues.

Desert plants leafing out as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise.

The plant, called Cinnamomum subavenium, is a relative of the cinnamon plant.

Luteolin reduces inflammation in the brain that can cause memory problems.

Plant and animal winners of the BMC Ecology photo contest.

Evidence mounts that plants signal with sound.

The olive tree was first domesticated somewhere near Northern Syria, and spread throughout the Mediterranean from three separate hotspots

Omnivores eat whatever they can get their paws, fins, or sticky fingers on.

Natural carbon storage systems may be blocked by global warming.

Research examines the cellular process behind the plant's quick bite.

Plants know how do it in all sorts of kinky ways.

Criticisms trump the results of an alarming new study, which used questionable methods.