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If plants had never learned to grow in multiple directions, our world would look very different. No trees, flowers, or other ...

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

New research finds more than a fifth of flowering plant evolutionary history could vanish without adequate protection measures in place From the "world’s smelliest plant" to the tiniest of waterlilies ...

Scientists found a special protein in moss. This protein helped plants grow upwards and move from water to land millions of ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also ...

“You shouldn’t make decisions when you’re hungry.” Tell that to the cell that ate a bacterium 1.5 billion years ago and set in motion the evolution of all plants on Earth. In this episode of Crash ...