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 study published today in the open-access journal eLife. The new technique, originally reported on bioRxiv ...

The blooming of flowers and the release of their fragrance are key factors that determine the reproductive success of plants. For successful ...

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 ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

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 ...

For many years, David George Haskell, whose new book is "How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries," ...

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 ...