Category: Amazing Plants

It acts as a biosensor that can gauge changes in temperature and the acidic/basic nature of solvents. While other plants move in a single direction, its multidirectional movement can be put to use

Thus, despite the critical and long-distance role of chemical cues in securing pollinator behaviour, we offer a new and compelling case for the importance of floral morphology in sexual deception.

As a bounty of new research reveals, biologists are still sticking up for carnivorous plants, and still unearthing surprising details about the anatomy, evolution, biochemistry and hunting tactics

Although plants do not have nervous systems, they respond to stress with chemical and electrical signals that are remarkably similar to those of animals, a new study has found.

Could the Mediterranean cypress help combat wildfires in other parts of the world, like California or the Patagonia in Chile and Argentina?

As parasitic plants evolved, some made extra copies of their gene for the karrikin receptor. Some of the extra copies gained the ability to detect strigolactones. (The process of evolution usually involves random changes to genes that will be passed onto future generations.)

The new evolutionary timeline begins 112 million years ago, when the first orchids appeared. About 90 million years ago, the major living lineages started to split from each other. Then, sometime before 64 million years ago, a key innovation occurred: Orchids developed a way to lump their pollen into sticky balls, called pollinia, so that pollinators would not lose any grains before reaching other orchids. The

Scientists are scrambling to find ways to stop the beetle. Some are testing insecticides; others are trying to quarantine healthy forests. But recent research suggests the key may be found in the trees themselves, in the chemicals they use to battle insects.

This discovery raises significant questions about the early evolutionary history of flowering plants, as well as the role of these plants in the evolution of other plant and animal life

Plants aren’t burping, We’re not saying diffusion doesn’t happen, but it’s not enough to describe the rates of volatile emission that we observe.