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 ...

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.

The magic gene has the effect of reducing the amount of UV light reflected from the petals, making flowers harder for bees to see. But (and this is where the magic comes in) reducing UV reflection ...

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 new study. Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a ...

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 ...

Reproduction in the animal kingdom has historically been sexual. Cloning the sheep Dolly in 1997 moved us closer to the possibility of duplicating other animals or humans asexually, but the practice ...

William (Ned) Friedman (at right) is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Charles Darwin called the relatively sudden rise of flowering plants an “abominable mystery.” ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A fluffy, frondy plant that wouldn't look out of place in a lake today was one of the oldest ...