Researchers led by Dr. LI Hongju from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed that the female gamete in flowering plants controls ...

The peptide, named NON-DEFENSIN PEPTIDE ATTRACTANT 1 (NPA1), represents the first non-defensin-type attractant identified in dicots and expands the known diversity of fertilization cues in flowering ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 123, No. 2, Special Issue on Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction (January 2019), pp. 337-345 (9 pages) • Background and Aims As a major evolutionary transition in seed ...

In the flowering plant world, reproduction means an intricate succession of events. It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive ...

A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance. The model can be used to provide convenient maximum likelihood estimation of the ...

Where rains in some locations leached nutrients from the soil, farms, lawns and gardens may need fertilizer now, but if there ...

Plants adapt the growth of their roots and shoots differently in response to environmental changes, according to a study involving the Ecological-Botanical Garden (ÖBG) at the University of Bayreuth.