Gravity affects the ecology and evolution of every living organism. In plants, the general response to gravity is well known: their roots respond positively, growing down, into the soil, and their stems respond negatively, ...
Biotechnology
Feb 4, 2013
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In a major effort to speed up the process of officially recognizing new plant species, botanists will no longer be required to provide Latin descriptions of new species, and publication in online academic journals and books ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2011
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Botanists have discovered the first known species of orchid that flowers at night, London's Kew Gardens announced on Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2011
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A flowering plant has been found at an altitude of above 4,505 metres (14,780 feet) on the central Swiss alps -- a European record, Basel University said Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2011
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The research efforts of University of Guam scientist Thomas Marler have put Guam's endangered native cycad, Cycas micronesica (fadang is the Chamorro name) on the cover of the June 2011 International Journal of Plant Sciences ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2011
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Botanists in Vermont say a flowering plant long thought to be extinct in the state is making a comeback.
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2017
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It is one of the rarest shrubs in the southeastern United States, and for scientists trying to save it, the critically endangered Michaux's sumac (Rhus michauxii) is not cooperating.
Ecology
Oct 11, 2011
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In 1766, Frenchwoman Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to work as assistant to renowned botanist Philibert Commerson on the first French circumnavigation of the globe. The expedition consisted of two ships under the ...
Other
Jan 3, 2012
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Botanists at the Missouri Botanical Garden have described eight new plant species collected in the Madidi National Park and surrounding areas located on the eastern slopes of the Andes in northern Bolivia. The new species ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2010
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The important changes to the way scientists name new plants that took effect on 1 January 2012 included the fall of the so-called Latin requirement - a stipulation that descriptions or diagnoses of new species had to be in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2012
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