Despite its 500-million-year history, the plant-fungi alliance holds mysteries that, once unravelled, could revolutionise agriculture and ecosystem management.
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Today, these plants are iconic to the Australian bush. But banksias and their many relatives originated in far-away shores 130 million years ago.
Plants have not lost their capacity for innovation over the years, finds new study.
The arrangement of leaves on most plants follows a mathematical pattern – new research sheds light on how it evolved.
Plants have evolved several ways to deal with heavy metals that might otherwise poison or kill them.
Millions of years before dinosaur footsteps first set tremors through the Earth, this flowering plant family was already thriving – and you can still find them in gardens today.
Drinking a cup of coffee means ingesting a complex mixture of chemicals. Research has given us mixed messaging about whether coffee is beneficial or harmful.
How flowering plants evolved has been a mystery, but a new fossil discovery hints at the unknown complexity of ancient plant diversity.
Studying how contemporary apples have changed drastically from their origins and preserving wild varieties can help maintain their diversity.
Without these older Australians, my research wouldn’t be where it is today. So let’s meet a few of them.
Plants use their flower colours for ‘brand recognition’ among insects - but also work together to attract more pollinators.
Bees can perceive flower colours and hues which are invisible to us — such as those produced by reflected ultraviolet radiation.
A colony-building fern that grows in treetops on Lord Howe Island has adopted a lifestyle similar to social insects, turning our understanding of the evolution of biological complexity on its head.
Scientists have reconstructed the common ancestor of everything from rose bushes to oak trees, ivy or wheat.
Sometimes less can be more. Carnivorous pitcher plants from the tropical island of Borneo (Brunei) demonstrate this quite impressively. These plants use funnel-shaped pitfall traps, or pitchers, with slippery…
Degeneration of plant Y chromosomes can help us understand why our own have shrunk, according to recent research. Researchers…
Plants may be able to “learn” from the environment and adjust their behaviour, much like animals, suggests new research from…
One hectare of land in a tropical forest can hold 650 tree species – more than in all of Canada and the continental US. This has left biologists baffled for decades. Now, with advances in data analysis…
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Researcher and analyst, Monash University
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Plant Ecology, Curtin University
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Thomas Merritt é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Researcher and International Fellow, Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth University
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Post doctoral research fellow plant evolution, The University of Melbourne
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PhD student, Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Dalhousie University
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Assistant professor, Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba
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PhD Candidate, Palaeobotany, University College Cork
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Bristol
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Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
