Our ancestors' teeth tell an astonishing story of survival and adaptation. A recent study reveals how their diet influenced ...

As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions. This challenge is especially urgent for crops—plants resilient to ...

HORST MARSCHNER, Mechanisms of adaptation of plants to acid soils, Plant and Soil, Vol. 134, No. 1, Selected papers from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLANT-SOIL ...

Susan Mopper, Peter Stiling, Keli Landau, Daniel Simberloff, Peter Van Zandt, Spatiotemporal Variation in Leafminer Population Structure and Adaptation to Individual ...

Plants using C4 photosynthesis grow 20-100 percent quicker than more common C3 plants by altering the shape, size and structure of their leaves and roots, according to a new study.

Plants living in unusual soils, such as those that are extremely low in essential nutrients, provide insight into the mechanisms of adaptation, natural selection, and endemism. A seminal 1951 ...