Researchers have gained new insights into the genetic basis of rye reproduction. They have demonstrated how plants recombine ...

Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular ...

A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture. Farmers throughout the world spend ...

Scientist have discovered that pollen, the organ that contains the plant male gametes, communicate with the pistil, their female counterpart, using a mechanism commonly observed in the nervous system ...

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Positive effects of fragmentation on plant reproduction are uncommon; in a literature review we found significant negative effects on fruit or seed set for 50 plant species, compared to 26 species ...

Have you ever seen a caterpillar get flung from an exploding plant? Probably not! Read here to learn about this strange plant ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1552142 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1552142 Copy URL In most alpine and arctic plants there is selection for early flowering because of ...

Sometimes it’s easy to tell if something is living or not. A teddy bear might look like a bear, but it cannot do any of the seven things it needs to be able to do to count as being alive. A car can ...