Cycad plants host nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria within specialized roots. The tiny microbes willingly share the newly acquired nitrogen with their hosts as their contribution to a symbiosis that ...

In greenhouses from Berkeley to Santa Barbara, a little-known rescue network protects endangered cycads from poachers, ...

At first glance, a cycad plant - a "sago palm"- could pass for a true palm, with its single cylindrical trunk topped by a cluster of fronds. Palms and cycads are sold side by side in specialized ...

"Cycads are slow-growing plants so it's hard to predict whether cycads can survive, now that climate change is occuring at a much faster rate," she says. Tags: botany, evolution.

Seed dispersal of the Australian cycad Macrozamia miquelii (Zamiaceae): Are cycads megafauna-dispersed "grove forming" plants? American Journal of Botany , 2013; 100 (6): 1127 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200115 ...

The paper is published in the journal HortScience.. Cycads, known for their primitive features and slow growth, are one of ...

The ‘World’s Loneliest Plant’ Could Soon Find a Mate With a Little Help From A.I. The only known wild Wood’s cycad was discovered in 1895, and it has since been cloned into many male trees.

A study published in the June 2020 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Horticulturae shows that cycads, which are in decline and among the world's most threatened group of plants, provide an ...