Scientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees, maple trees ...

Kingdom-wide phylogenetic analysis of over 400 CYP716s from over 200 plant species reveals details of their evolution and suggests that in eudicots the CYP716s evolved specifically towards ...

image: Developing Maize Plant – a staple crop and member of the grass family. A new study explains how the grass leaf evolved. view more Credit: Annis Richardson Grass is cut regularly by our ...

The names "monocot" and "dicot" come from the term cotyledon. A cotyledon is the part of the embryonic plant, housed in the seed that upon germination becomes the first leaf, or leaves, of the ...