Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and ...

This archival footage from the 1930s offers an in-depth exploration of plant and aquatic life cycles, focusing on the processes of reproduction and growth at a microscopic level. The film begins with ...

Aims Nitrogen (N) fertilization is known to modify a plant's susceptibility to necrotrophic diseases. However, the effect of N nutrition on defence is not well known. It was hypothesized that not only ...

Fertilized grasslands are more productive but poorer in species. Researchers have now identified the mechanisms that lead to loss of biodiversity through fertilization. The new results show that ...