"I've always been fascinated with how [color variation of flowers] arises and how it evolves ... plasticity is one mechanism by which natural populations can respond really rapidly to changing ...

In a world-first, scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or CRISPR/Cas9, genome-editing tool to change flower color in an ornamental ... on a bacterial defense mechanism.

Not content to just watch flowers dance in the breeze ... discovered the biophysical mechanism underlying the flytrap's snare in 2005. But both blooming and snapping work because plants build ...

Flowers used to come with understood meanings ... were not enough to dislodge a stamen and activate its bellow mechanism. That means fewer opportunities for insects to plunder all their stored ...

BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have revealed the mechanisms underlying the formation of complex color patterns on Nigella orientalis (Ranunculaceae) petals. Researchers from the ...

But when it is planted in acidic soil, the flowers remain blue. That is the reason the color of hydrangeas sometimes changes when they are transplanted from a pot to the ground. Through microscope ...