Invasive plants. They may have innocent enough names, such as porcelainberry and tree-of-heaven and Oriental bittersweet. But make no mistake about it, they are killers and they want to take over your ...

Infographic: Plants Deploy Exosomes to Stop Alien Invaders A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.

Understanding and predicting biological invasions can focus either on traits that favour species invasiveness or on features of the receiving communities, habitats or landscapes that promote their ...

We are under attack by aliens at this very moment! These aliens, however, have eschewed their spaceships. They need not arrive from distant galaxies. In fact, they can be found in the very ground on ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 112, No. 9 (December 2013), pp. 1921-1930 (10 pages) • Background and Aims Local adaptation enables plant species to persist under different environmental conditions.