In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ZSL (Zoological Society of ...
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'Irreplaceable and threatened': One-fifth of all flowering plants on edge of extinction
Only about 20% of flowering plants had formal IUCN Red List assessments at the time of the study.
Scientists have ranked all known flowering plants and found that more than 20% of their evolutionary history is now at risk ...
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 ...
In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains a study that documents the evolutionary history of flowering ...
An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...
Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists have identified new tree genus in the Andes, Daturodendron, related to tomatoes and potatoes as a plant group ...
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