Seven to nine percent of all vascular plant species occurring in Europe are threatened. This is the result of a study led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin ...

Botanists have compiled a comprehensive, searchable checklist of 124,993 species, 6,227 genera and 355 families of vascular plants of the Americas. This represents one third of all known vascular ...

Theoretical biologists have solved a unique puzzle in the structure of plants' vascular tissue. Two mutations that had opposite effects appear to lead to the same result. Professor of Computational ...

Among the vast diversity of plants, we often focus our admiration, conservation efforts and research on vascular plants: the towering trees, flowering shrubs, and beneficial grasses and herbs. However ...

The Turrell Herbarium (MU) contains a geographically and taxonomically broad collection of approximately 340,000 accessioned specimens (with approximately 20,000 currently being cataloged). Though the ...

Vascular plants deploy a diverse array of secretory structures—including glandular trichomes, colleters, nectaries and ducts—to synthesise, transport and release a wide spectrum of metabolites. These ...

A team of 24 researchers pulled together information from plant checklists across the two continents and added it to the Tropicos database. With the details of all of the species in one place, ...

How certain is the continued survival of animal and plant species? How high is the risk that they might become extinct? The answers are collated in regional, national and global threat assessments; ...

Plant researchers and bioinformatics researchers have succeeded for the first time in identifying the functions of the different cell types in the leaf vasculature of plants. The leaf vasculature of ...

Bacterial vascular diseases can turn hidden infections into rapid crop collapse because pathogens build protective biofilms ...