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 ...

Flowering strips -- plants used to augment bee foraging habitats -- can help increase bee reproduction but may also increase pathogen infection rates. Flowering strips -- pollinator-friendly rows of ...

Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a new study. Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a ...

Flowering time determines reproductive success in perennial trees, yet the epigenetic mechanisms underlying sexual asynchrony remain poorly understood.

Spring is in the air and many organisms are focusing their energy on sex - plants as well as animals. Red-flowering currant, trillium, violets, skunk cabbage, even the trees are flowering. The ...

Lee and Lincoln Taiz at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Sexual reproduction in animals has been recognized since ancient times and used in the breeding of domesticated animals for more than 10,000 ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...

A gradient (red) in the concentration of the plant hormone auxin determines that only one of the eight nuclei in a plant's embryo sac will become an egg. (The blue island in the image is a cell ...

Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a study published today in the open-access journal eLife. The new technique, originally reported on bioRxiv ...