From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

Passiflora incarnata, Nymphaea odorata, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Asclepius incarnata! Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come ...

A new study has uncovered intriguing insights into the evolution of plant biology, effectively rewriting the history of how they evolved over the past billion years. The research, published today in ...

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis. The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across ...

Take a glimpse behind the scenes at the tricks, technology and trouble that went into making Kingdom of Plants.

We all learned in high school biology class that plants and animals belong to completely different kingdoms of life. Given this, how is it possible that the chemicals produced by plants can influence ...

Myo-inositol transporters affect colonization via cross-kingdom signaling. By exporting myo-inositol, plant cells trigger bacteria to swim toward the plant. Microorganisms that live on or in plant ...