Participants plan to map the genome for the greater sunflower family, known in the science world as Compositae and including more than 24,000 species of sunflowers, lettuce, artichokes ...

A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) gathers pollen in a field of yellow sunflowers, plants whose pollen helps the insects expel parasites. New research, published in the Journal of ...

Western sunflowers, H. anomalus, as well as paradox and desert sunflowers, are younger than we are. They evolved when humans were migrating from our geographic origin in southern Africa to Europe and ...