Photoperiodism varies between species. While the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana needs short nights to flower, rice requires long nights. This new study reveals that, in rice, it is the ...

It is especially the dominant plant species, such as red clover, which become more prevalent. The development of the flowering period also changes as insect density declines. Some of the plants ...

Botanists have now used leaf vein density, a trait visible on leaf compression fossils, to document the occurrence of stratified forests with a canopy dominated by flowering plants. Most plant ...