Two of the most prominent vascular pathogens are fungal species of Verticillium or Botryosphaeria. Both infect a wide array ...

Missouri Botanical Garden researcher Dr. Carmen Ulloa is the lead author of "An Integrated Assessment of Vascular Plant Species of the Americas," published today in Science. Ulloa along with 23 ...

Seven to nine percent of all vascular plant species occurring in Europe are threatened. This is the result of a study led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin ...

A team of 24 researchers pulled together information from plant checklists across the two continents and added it to the Tropicos database. With the details of all of the species in one place, ...

A global collaborative effort to create a checklist of all vascular plants in New Guinea has revealed it to be the most floristically diverse island in the world. New Guinea is globally recognized as ...

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig – iDiv e. V. How certain is the continued survival of animal and plant species? How high is the risk that they might become ...

Plant researchers and bioinformatics researchers have succeeded for the first time in identifying the functions of the different cell types in the leaf vasculature of plants. The leaf vasculature of ...

Vascular plants deploy a diverse array of secretory structures—including glandular trichomes, colleters, nectaries and ducts—to synthesise, transport and release a wide spectrum of metabolites. These ...

In this episode we’ll explore the earliest plants: bryophytes and seedless vascular plants Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this ...

Botanists have compiled a comprehensive, searchable checklist of 124,993 species, 6,227 genera and 355 families of vascular plants of the Americas. This represents one third of all known vascular ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...