16-03-29 Like most annuals, lettuce plants live out their lives in quiet, three-act dramas that follow the seasons. Seed dormancy gives way to germination; the young plant emerges and grows; and finally in the climax of flowering, a new generation of seeds i...

15-08-18 Indiana University paleobotanist David Dilcher and colleagues in Europe have identified a 125 million- to 130 million-year-old freshwater plant as one of earliest flowering plants on Earth. The finding, reported Aug. 17 in the Proceedings of the Nat...

14-03-27 The Phalaenopsis orchid, also known as the moth orchid, is the most important pot flower（盆花） in terms of market value in the world's major floriculture（花卉栽培） markets. Because nitrogen significantly affects the growth and flowering of Phala...

14-01-05 A 100-million-year old piece of amber（琥珀） has been discovered which reveals the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant -- a cluster of 18 tiny flowers from the Cretaceous Period -- with one of them in the process of making s...

13-12-30 The newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant addresses Darwin's abominable（讨厌的） mystery -- the question of why flowers suddenly proliferated on Earth millions of years ago. The genome sequence sheds new light on a major event in the histor...