Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

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

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

In lab experiments and field studies, the team tracked the beetles with fluorescent dyes as they moved from cone to cone.

Plant reproductive complexity increased in two, widely separated pulses likely driven by important evolutionary innovations, including the origin of seeds and flowers, according to a new study. These ...

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

A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture. Farmers throughout the world spend ...

Oecologia, Vol. 177, No. 4, Special Feature on Coordinated Approaches to Global Change Research (April 2015), pp. 1075-1087 (13 pages) Reproduction is an important life history trait that strongly ...

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

DFG Research Unit “Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction” (ICIPS) will be funded for another four years The Research Unit “Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction” ...