Containing more than 850 species, fig trees are one of the most diverse groups of plants in the world. To unravel how this plant genus (Ficus in the Moraceae family) evolved to become such a diverse group, an international team of...
In 1793, Captain William Bligh arrived in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines with cargo filled with several hundred sapling breadfruit trees aboard the HMS Providence. His goal was to introduce the long-lived trees, which produce carbohydrate-rich fruits, as a...
Northwestern plant biologists have determined that a species of fruit-bearing tree found in Borneo and the Philippines, initially considered by Western botanists to be a single species, is actually two genetically distinct species. The Iban people, indigenous to Borneo, refer...
