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 ...

A protein complex known as DREAM that normally puts the brakes on genes may also be crucial for reproduction in plants, ...

New research in Science Advances shows that the DREAM complex, long known as a gene-silencing brake in dividing cells, ...

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 ...

Something that greatly changed the history of plants. One of those things was the seed.Until then, many plants reproduced via ...

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 ...

Apomixis (asexual reproduction via seeds) has the potential to revolutionize sunflower breeding. In previous studies, we identified a diploid sunflower line (Rf975) that naturally exhibits extra ...

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 ...

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

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 ...