Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode ...

The evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships of seed plants have long captivated botanists and palaeobiologists alike. Recent investigations elucidate the mechanisms underlying key ...

What do humans have in common with the dinosaurs that trampled through ancient forests? It turns out that both may have a surprising impact on the size of seeds in the fruits growing around them. When ...

The evolution of seeds transformed life on earth and is responsible for our most important food crops. Gymnosperms, the oldest living seed plants, are an untapped genomic reservoir for genes involved ...

How it works More than 66 million years ago, when the world still had big lumbering dinosaurs, the average seed size of ...

Introduction -- Ecologically meaningful germination studies -- Types of seeds and kinds of seed dormancy -- Germination ecology of seeds with nondeep physiological dormancy -- Germination ecology of ...

A research team sheds light on the molecular mechanisms behind foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) inflorescence development, ...

Yet, if humans stop playing the role of sauropods and aren't replaced by other megafauna engineers, we could expect a forest darkening and consequent restart of the race for light, with the evolution ...