Is a population of rare cress found near Bristol, UK, a remnant of an ice age population, or is it part of a wider European population that survived in refugia somewhere?

‘Two households, both alike in dignity’ is famously the opening line of Romeo & Juliet. How alike houses Montague and Capulet actually are is debatable, but what is clear is that plants with two households can be very different. Plants? Two households? What? Well, around 6% of plant species are dioecious (from the Greek for […]

Excess nitrogen significantly accelerated nodule senescence and the production of green leghaemoglobin in nodules.

In addition to preventing water loss, plant cuticles must also regulate nutrient loss, leaching. The eceriferum mutants in Hordeum vulgare (barley) potentially influence these functions by altering epicuticular wax structure and composition.

The core Heterotropa group was divided into nine subclades, each of which had a narrow geographic distribution.

Marcela Mendoza-Suárez and colleagues have a new tool to turbocharge legumes.

Beams of homogalacturonan in plant cells could be creating peculiar the shapes of pavement cells.

How Brassica napus takes up phosphorus can also change how it takes up other nutrients.

Population genetics may decide if oak can fight off infections it has never seen before.

The genes hornworts share with other living plants may tell us something about their ancient common ancestor.

When getting cellulose to the cell wall, plant cells don't rely on just one set of directions.