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Oct. 4, 2021 Amber researc has produced the first definite identification of grass in fossilized tree resin from the Baltic region, home to the world's most well-known amber ...
Mar. 2, 2022 The evolutionary relationships among grasses have been clarified in new molecular study of the grass family tree, the study also provides evidence that a type of photosynthesis -- known as 'C4 ...
Dec. 10, 2021 Lizard beetles farm yeast inside bamboo stems for their developing larvae to eat. Scientists have now found that, contrary to other insect-fungus relationships, the job of the yeast in this one does ...
Sep. 1, 2023 Flowering for some plants is a yearly occurrence, for others, it is a once-in-a-lifetime event. A widespread species of bamboo in Japan, Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis, takes this one-time ...
July 9, 2021 Although the giant panda is in practice a herbivore, its masticatory system functions differently from the other herbivores. Through the processes of natural selection, the giant panda's dietary ...
June 30, 2022 An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda to survive solely on bamboo and the evolutionary history of panda's false ...
Sep. 7, 2022 An event that occurs only once every 120 years, the large-scale flowering, seeding, and dying of dwarf bamboo (Sasa borealis), has been found to provide ideal breeding conditions for Japanese field ...
Dec. 9, 2021 The mystery of grass leaf formation has now been unraveled using the latest computational modelling and developmental genetic ...
Aug. 1, 2022 Lumbering through the forested wetlands of Bulgaria around six million years ago, a new species of panda has been uncovered by scientists who state it is currently the last known and 'most ...
Apr. 21, 2023 Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland. Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss ...