Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park Service in 1957, but the story doesn’t end there. More than 20 years ago, in the dusty basement of a park Service library in West Virginia, ...

A new study appearing Nov. 16 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution has concluded that the cycad species that survived relied on symbiotic bacteria in their roots, which provide them with nitrogen ...

For example, stachyose was abundant in these cycad stems and each stachyose required the prior biosynthesis of galactose, but the free galactose pool was negligible. This study shows that an ...