Most plants can reproduce both sexually (through flowers and seed) but many important crops, such as potatoes and strawberry, are propagated vegetatively, e.g. through tubers or shoots. A new study of ...

The colonisation of land by plants was one of the most important evolutionary steps on earth; it subsequently affected all other terrestrial evolutionary processes. Leaving the aquatic environment ...

Some plants reproduce by creating genetically identical copies of themselves. These organisms can survive for centuries, functioning as a single entity. Pando, a quaking aspen colony in Utah, is one ...