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 ...

Most plants are green due to the presence of chlorophyll, which assists them in producing their food via the process of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role in controlling cell differentiation and determining gender in vascular plants, using a fern model. The discovery ...

Boreal forests are being clear-cut faster than some of their wildlife and plant species can recover, with a few failing to ...