Flowering plants - from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse flower and voodoo lily - are cornerstones of Earth's ecosystems and essential for humankind.

Global scientists build a comprehensive tree of life for flowering plants, shedding light on their evolution and ecological dominance.

Pennsylvania is just one of more than a dozen states that have recently banned — or want to ban — the ornamental tree.

Using genomic data from more than 9500 species, biologists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants

With their own botanical collection material and their research knowledge on the evolution of cruciferous plants (plants of the cabbage family), bioscientists at Heidelberg University have contributed to a large-scale international study that has produced a comprehensive "tree of life" for flowering plants.