Discover how wild plants could become resilient crops for a warming world, unlocking new potential for food security.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make ...

Researchers have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for human cultivation than others.

Some plants are in gardens, some plants are in the wild. My mum wants me to water the flowers for her. She says flowers but they're actually plants. Flowers are just the pretty heads. I'm going to ...

In Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives, Ellstrand, a professor of genetics at the University of California at Riverside and a widely respected contributor to ...

More than 20 rice, wheat and yam plants have been listed as threatened on the latest version of the IUCN's Red list. The wild plants are being squeezed out by intensive farming, deforestation and ...