Plant reproduction is a cornerstone of our food system and ecological balance; however, it is a complex process. Plants have fascinating reproductive strategies, some being either male or female, some ...

The sole survivor of the oldest line of flowering plants, Amborella is the last witness of the great biological success these plants have had over millions of years. The sequencing of its genome can ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A study on Amborella, a plant of remarkable heritage, reveals new information about the origins of flowers on Earth. Amborella hails from an ancient evolutionary lineage, and ...

The tropical shrub known as Amborella trichopoda is the duck-billed platypus of the plant world, the only survivor of the earliest branch on the family tree of flowering plants. Scientists have now ...

If you like being alive, you might want to thank a plant. Plants and their microscopic relatives provide the oxygen we breathe. They're also the source of the energy for the modern industrial world.

Excerpted from Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants by Ruth Kassinger, out now from William Morrow. Why flowers, anyhow? Plants began ...

Biologists have sequenced the genome of the Amborella plant. The genome sequence sheds new light on a major event in the history of life on Earth: the origin of flowering plants, including all major ...

A team of researchers have sequenced the genome of the Amborella plant, one of the two oldest lineages of flowering plants, for the first time, potentially addressing Charles Darwin’s “abominable ...

A remarkable number of the defining features of flowering plants are expressed during the life history stage between pollination and fertilization. Hand pollinations of Amborella trichopoda ...

Alex Harkess holds the Amborella plant sequenced in this study in 2013, during his training in Leebens-Mack’s lab at UGA. Plant reproduction is a cornerstone of our food system and ecological balance; ...