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A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

A deep genetic mystery has baffled plant scientists for decades. Although leaves, stems, and flowers develop in strikingly similar ways across many ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By ...

The cactus on your windowsill may grow slowly, but new research shows that cacti are surprisingly fast at creating new ...

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. With its putrid stench, ...