This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how flowers play a central role in the reproductive cycle of plants. Their striking array of colors, patterns, fragrances, and nectar all require lots of ...

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 ...

Flowers are mainly made up of four parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and the pistil. Every part has it's unique and different ...

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 ...

Guest editors: Dr. Ray Ming (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Dr. Li-Yu Chen (Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University), and Dr. Takashi Akagi (Okayama University) Plant reproduction is ...

THE two parts of this work deal respectively with the anatomy and the life-histories and reproduction of plants. A large number of the anatomical figures are original, and although they vary in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Canola (Brassica napus L.) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), two important oilseed crops, are sensitive to low boron (B) supply. Symptoms ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could unlock how the flower got that way. By Veronique Greenwood The vast majority of ...

• Mountain plants are particularly sensitive to climate warming because snowmelt timing exerts a direct control on their reproduction. Current warming is leading to earlier snowmelt dates and longer ...