Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

Plants grow best when genetics inside cells cooperate, while mismatched genetics reduce photosynthesis and climate resilience ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

A plant's success may depend on how well the three sets of genetic instructions it carries in its cells cooperate, according ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity’s food. Yet the process of photosynthesis has inefficiencies that limit crop ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

A plant's success may depend on how well the three sets of genetic instructions it carries in its cells cooperate, according ...

This is generally true, including for the lettuce leaves we eat. However, the surface of a leaf is not just a shield – it is ...