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 ...

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 ...

Spring is in the air and many organisms are focusing their energy on sex - plants as well as animals. Red-flowering currant, trillium, violets, skunk cabbage, even the trees are flowering. The ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Nagoya, Japan - Flowering plants naturally know when they need to spare or perish their cells. In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...

Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a study published today in the open-access journal eLife. The new technique, originally reported on bioRxiv ...