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

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

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

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

The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then ...

BBSRC invests £20m in UK bioscience to advance research in gene regulation, microbiology, photosynthesis and quantum bio ...

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 ...

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

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...

Soil contamination by cadmium is a growing global challenge that threatens food safety, agricultural productivity, and ...

Mistletoe is a richly symbolic winter plant with an unusual life cycle. With more than half of England's traditional orchards ...