Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

Some plants lack both green pigments and sexual reproduction, yet these unusual traits reveal important insights into what defines plant life. A new ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about what it means to be a ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about ...