Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first time
Imagine you're at work and suddenly, a cheetah pokes its head through your window.
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2017
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- Publisher
- Botanical Society of America
- Country
- United States
- History
- 1914–present
- Website
- http://www.amjbot.org/
- Impact factor
- 2.642 (2008)
American Journal of Botany
From one cell to many: How did multicellularity evolve?
In the beginning there were single cells. Today, many millions of years later, most plants, animals, fungi, and algae are composed of multiple cells that work collaboratively as a single being. Despite the various ways these ...
Evolution
Jan 24, 2014
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Double your genes: Stepping stones for the next century of understanding plant polyploidy
We might think of living organisms as typically having two sets of chromosomes—-one from mom and one from dad. But there are lots of variations out there. Polyploidy, or having more than two chromosome copies, is especially ...
Evolution
Aug 29, 2016
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Spurge purge: Plant fossils reveal ancient South America-to-Asia 'escape route'
Anyone who has taken a long road trip or bike ride has used a product of the spurge plant family—rubber. The spurge family, or Euphorbiaceae, includes economically valuable plants like the rubber tree, castor oil plant, ...
Evolution
Jul 25, 2023
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Genetically modified corn affects its symbiotic relationship with non-target soil organisms
An increasing number of crops commercially grown today are genetically modified (GM) to resist insect pests and/or tolerate herbicides. Although Bt corn is one of the most commonly grown GM crops in the United States, little ...
Ecology
Apr 17, 2012
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New research sheds light on why certain oaks are found together
North America is home to 91 species of oak trees. Astoundingly, the various species rarely, if ever, occur alone. Where one kind of oak is found, invariably at least one more will be found. How can nature support a setup ...
Ecology
May 14, 2018
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Study shines new light on how young tree seedlings develop
The first few weeks of a tree seedling's life can be the most precarious.
Ecology
Aug 25, 2020
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Graduate student brings extinct plants to life
Jeff Benca is an admitted über-geek when it comes to prehistoric plants, so it was no surprise that, when he submitted a paper describing a new species of long-extinct lycopod for publication, he ditched the standard line ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2014
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Reindeer lichens are having more sex than expected
In northern Canada, the forest floor is carpeted with reindeer lichens. They look like a moss made of tiny gray branches, but they're stranger than that: they're composite organisms, a fungus and algae living together as ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2021
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Mahogany tree family dates back to last hurrah of the dinosaurs
You might own something made from mahogany like furniture, paneling or a musical instrument.
Archaeology
Apr 15, 2020
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