Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work shows that many aquatic lineages instead rewire and expand key gene families, ...

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

About 200 researchers from around the world attended the Third International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology (PVB 2013) held in July 2013 at the Rantapuisto ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Seven to nine percent of all vascular plant species occurring in Europe are globally threatened, according to a new study. Researchers combined Red Lists of endangered plant species in Europe with ...

The Turrell Herbarium (MU) contains a geographically and taxonomically broad collection of approximately 340,000 accessioned specimens (with approximately 20,000 currently being cataloged). Though the ...

A global collaborative effort to create a checklist of all vascular plants in New Guinea has revealed it to be the most floristically diverse island in the world. New Guinea is globally recognized as ...