Ferns and lycophytes are distinct lineages, with lycophytes being the oldest lineage among extant vascular plants, and ferns being the sister group to seed plants. Historically, both lineages have ...

Yun Zhou, associate professor of botany and plant pathology, and five Purdue collaborators recently published their results ...

Purdue University plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role in controlling cell ...

This Current Biology paper is the most recent in a series ... to address these questions,” Zhou said. One of them is the fern Ceratopteris, a seed-free plant model. The other is the shoot ...