Question: Is demographic performance of Primula vulgaris correlated with habitat characteristics of the small landscape elements in which it occurs? Can we use this species as an indicator for species ...

The name primrose refers to a large number of plants, some of which are not primroses at all. Primroses are in fact part of the Primula family - Primula being Latin, and referring to the fact that ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 56, No. 414 (April 2005), pp. 1177-1188 (12 pages) Primula species provide possibly the best known examples of heteromorphic flower development and this breeding ...

Scientists have identified the cluster of genes responsible for reproductive traits in the common primrose flower (Primula vulgaris), first noted as important by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago ...

Plant scientists at the University of East Anglia have succeeded in unravelling the complete genome sequence of the common primrose -- the plant whose reproductive biology captivated the Victorian ...

The primrose of Shakespeare and other poets is actually a family of several hundred species and hybrid plants known for their striking, often brilliant blossoms. Though many of these eye-catching ...

Researchers have genetically transformed the Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) for the first time in a development that could shed light on one of the plant world's most renowned reproductive systems ...

A basket of flowering primroses sat on my kitchen table from mid-January through Easter. These were the so-called English primrose, Primula vulgaris, native to southern and western Europe, northwest ...

Researchers have genetically transformed the Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) for the first time in a development that could shed light on one of the plant world's most renowned reproductive systems ...

EARLIER this week on a brisk evening walk along the coast they caught my eye from a 100 yards away. Hundreds of them used to populate all the steep banks in this particular field, what’s known locally ...

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