Pollen morphology—the study of the size, shape, wall structure and aperture patterns of pollen grains—provides an essential window into the evolution and diversification of flowering plants. The outer ...

A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process that allows wild plants to breed across species -- one of plants' most powerful evolutionary forces.

A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have identified the huge impact of flowering plants on the evolution of life on Earth. Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, ...

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...