Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle, Darwinylus marcosi, died in a sticky gob of tree sap some 105 million years ago in what is now northern Spain. As it ...

The world as we know it today is almost inconceivable without the rich and colourful landscapes created by plant life. Among them are flowering plants, or angiosperms, which are by far the most ...

Most of our food is from angiosperms, while more than 90% of angiosperms require insect pollination - making this pollination method hugely important. Nevertheless, scientists have long been unclear ...

Both bi- and tricellular lineages gave rise to each other, research finds, debunking the long-standing assumption that pollen states could only evolve in one direction, namely from bi- to tricellular, ...

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological appearance is ...

Recent work concerning the regulation of pollen and pollen tube development at the biochemical level in angiosperms has been reviewed, commencing with the microspore immediately after meiosis and ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 180, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2019), pp. 93-127 (35 pages) Premise of research. Small angiosperm fossils are diverse in Early Cretaceous mesofossil floras from ...