UC Davis graduate student Jeffrey Groh has discovered how walnut trees are able to produce flowers of different sexes at different times in the same season. The genetic mechanism is similar to sex ...

Projection of the 318 genotypes from WOGBM on the first two principal components (PC) of a PC analysis based on 235 825 SNPs. Colors blue, green, and orange indicate the group to which each genotype ...

Botanists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants using genomic data from more than 9500 species. The newly compiled tree of life will help scientists piece together the ...

A new species of succulent with mutant flowers, hidden for decades and key to the island's biodiversity, has been discovered ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing ...