One of the 110 species in the orchid genus Vanilla, Vanilla planifolia is famous in kitchens worldwide, and anything but bland!
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One of the 110 species in the orchid genus Vanilla, Vanilla planifolia is famous in kitchens worldwide, and anything but bland!
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Think plants look brown and dead in winter? There’s plenty of life still going on beneath the surface!
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It’s like having a time machine—supercomputers and gene sequencing allow scientists to study early events in plant evolution.
One of our conservation scientists, Norman Wickett, Ph.D., is co-leader of a global initiative involving some 40 researchers on four continents. The team has spent the past five years analyzing 852 genes from 103 types of land plants to tease out early events in plant evolution. The results, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, expand our knowledge of relationships among the earliest plants on land.
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Illustration by Maria Ciaccio
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Creepy, gooey, stinky, thorny…for some plants, every day is Halloween. Find out more in our Spooky Plants infographic!
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If days stay cool and sunny, fall color will continue, peaking this next week. Here’s how it works:
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