Sinking your teeth into a juicy, ripe watermelon is one of summer's greatest pleasures, particularly when you don't have to spit out any seeds. Indeed, humans have adapted many fruits to be seedless ...

QUESTION: How do seedless plants reproduce? ANSWER: Scientists estimate that there are approximately 400,000 species of plants on Earth. It is no surprise that there are many forms of plant ...

Learn how an underground plant is redefining what plants need to survive.

This week we’re featuring five winners of the 2012 Academic Minute Senior Superlatives. Chris Martine from SUNY Plattsburgh took home the Best Smile honor for letting us in on the secret world of ...

On a summer morning, hungry caterpillars make meals of lush tobacco and cotton leaves. The plants can't run away from the nasty predators, but studies show the tobacco and cotton have an astonishing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A study out of Harvard and Purdue universities is starting to unravel the genetic mechanisms that allow some plants to duplicate their entire genomes and continue to reproduce.

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

You find out the hard way that buying a holly sapling for your garden is a game of Christmas Russian roulette. There is a 50 per cent chance of getting a female which, if pollinated, produces festive ...

Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-988001.mp3 Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Chris Martine of the State University of ...