If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Scientists warn of fungal disease threatening critically endangered Dipterocarpus bourdillonii in the Western Ghats, urging ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Plant names might sound like a chaotic mix of Latin, local legend, and old-school guesswork, but there’s actually a pretty [… ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Guwahati: Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have confirmed the presence of Aquilaria khasiana—a Critically Endangered agarwood-producing tree species—in Assam’s Jeypore Reserve ...

Kochi: Kerala Forest Research Institute identified a fungal infection in Dipterocarpus bourdillonii, known as Chiratta-anjili ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

The research team, composed of members from the Central South Inventory and Planning Institute of the National Forestry and ...

Carnivorous plants don’t come in just one form, in other words, but have evolved over and over again through time, flowering into an array of various sticky, slippery and spiky traps.

Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients. Mirror orchid mimics insects. Rafflesia smells like rotting flesh ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...