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 ...

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 ...

We investigated the effects of plant density on cleistogamous (CL) and chasmogamous (CH) flowering phenology and seed production in a natural Impatiens capensis population, by censusing individually ...

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 ...

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 ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Nagoya, Japan - Flowering plants naturally know when they need to spare or perish their cells. In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of ...

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 ...