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

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 ...

Plants use a clever cellular signal to keep growing and flowering as seasons shift and climate conditions become less ...

CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A plant preserved in 100 million-year-old amber has revealed the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant, U.S. and European researchers say.

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 ...

An enigma -- unique to flowering plants -- has been solved by researchers from the UK and South Korea. Scientists already knew that flowering plants require not one, but two sperm cells for successful ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1552142 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1552142 Copy URL In most alpine and arctic plants there is selection for early flowering because of ...

In a 21-year study conducted in Douglas County, Minnesota, researchers found that scheduled fires synchronized the bloom time of flowering in the prairie plant Echinacea angustifolia, which increased ...

Getting caught "doing it" is embarrassing enough, but imagine being frozen in flagrante delicto for a hundred million years. That's what happened to a species of flowering plant encased in amber ...