Scientific name for banana: Many of us see bananas as a simple, everyday snack, but only a few know about their history and precise scientific classification. However, knowing their botanical name can ...

Compacta holly and boxwood are two types of flowering plants resembling each other. One of the easiest ways to distinguish them is by their leaf arrangement, which is alternate for compacta holly and ...

Mugwort and ragweed are infamous as they are the most common allergenic plants in the world. Would you be surprised if we told you that they also have medicinal and anti-pollution properties? Before ...

The data available so far indicate that photosynthetic and relative growth rates of bryophytes are a 10% of those reported for tracheophytes. By revising the existing literature and reanalysing data ...

Recent palaeobotanical research on early terrestrial ecosystems hints at the existence of a novel and previously unknown major group of early land plants. Twin papers from Professor Dianne Edwards and ...

The phenylpropanoid pathway serves as a rich source of metabolites in plants and provides precursors for lignin biosynthesis. Lignin first appeared in tracheophytes and has been hypothesized to have ...

It has been seven years since the Frontiers in Plant Science SI entitled “Current advances and challenges in understanding plant desiccation tolerance”. There we noted a growing theme pointing out the ...

The Giant Sequoia is the largest of all trees in bulk and the most massive living thing by volume. On average, their height is between 164 and 279 feet tall with a diameter between 20 to 26 feet.

Many once-dominant land plants have either gone extinct or been reduced to an ecological role that represents just a shadow of their past importance 1,2. Under the sequential replacement hypothesis ...

Background Molecular phylogeny has resolved the liverworts as the earliest-divergent clade of land plants and mosses as the sister group to hornworts plus tracheophytes, with alternative topologies ...