Sexual or asexual reproduction, which is it?”When your child gets stuck on this question, are they thinking in terms of ...

A genomic field study of a Spanish wild crucifer shows that the density and genetic relatedness of neighbouring plants shape ...

You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

When the female gametes in plants become fertilized, a signal from the sperm activates cell division, leading to the formation of new plant seeds. This activation can also be deliberately triggered ...

Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through plant-pollinator mismatch but through frost damage, a new study shows. Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through ...

QUESTION: How do seedless plants reproduce? ANSWER: Scientists estimate that there are approximately 400,000 species of plants on Earth. It is no surprise that there are many forms of plant ...

The male reproductive organs of tomato plants can't stand the heat. When temperatures rise above 32 degrees Celsius for several consecutive days, their appearance changes and they produce less and ...

Asexual, or vegetative, reproduction in plants is controlled by environmental conditions, but the molecular signaling pathways that control this process are poorly understood. Recent research suggests ...

The colonisation of land by plants was one of the most important evolutionary steps on earth; it subsequently affected all other terrestrial evolutionary processes. Leaving the aquatic environment ...