An international team of scientists has mapped the evolutionary relationships between China’s 30,000 flowering plant species, uncovering a distinct regional pat...
University of Florida scientists have teamed up with acclaimed artists to create two multimedia art pieces about the connections between all life forms.
The ...
Plant biologist Doug Soltis has been elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an achievement considered one of the highest honors in American ...
Plant biologists Pam and Doug Soltis study the origin and evolution of flowering plants, plant genome evolution and conservation genetics. Florida Museum of Na...
Harmful plants have evolved to protect themselves from predators
It’s one of society’s hotly debated questions: ketchup or mustard?
For some, the harsh, aci...
Pam and Doug Soltis receive the Darwin-Wallace Medal.
Soltis Lab Blog
Pam and Doug Soltis were awarded the 2016 Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Soci...
Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, wi...
University of Florida researchers and their colleagues have sequenced the genome of the flowering plant Amborella for the first time, potentially revealing why ...
When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes.
University of Florida distinguished professor Doug Soltis, co-author of a new study published to...
This flat-stemmed cactus, Nopalxochia phyllanthoides, is an endangered species native to a cloud forest in Veracruz, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Juan Francisco O...
