Sweet bribes buy plants survival: ants act as loyal bodyguards, defending against herbivores but sometimes disrupting pollination.

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S.

Plants may be stuck in one place, but the world around them is constantly changing. In order to grow and flower at the right ...

Seasonal allergy sufferers have to be intentional about the plants that they grow in their garden. Some contain compounds that cause allergic reactions.

The alien-like blooms and putrid stench of Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower, draw big crowds and media coverage to botanical gardens each year. In 2015, for instance, more ...