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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 ...
You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move.
self pollination - pollen from an anther of the same flower or same plant arrives at the stigma of the flower. Examples of self-pollinating plants include wheat, barley, rice, tomatoes and potatoes.
Stigma The top of the female part of the flower which collects pollen grains. During plant reproduction, pollen grains need to move to the stigma of a flower. This is called pollination.
Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. Growth-derived mechanical conflicts between tissues are ...
Students in biology teacher Amy Jones' Ascension Catholic High class learned about plants and self-pollination by dissecting ...
This is the first instalment of a new gardening series that examines the secrets of success in plant parenting. Read more at ...
Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...
Pollinators are animals that help to transport pollen from one location to another in the plant reproduction process. Pollination is crucial to our well-being and to the survival of ecosystems.
Duckweed might be the world’s most underestimated plant. Thriving in water and rich in potential, this fast-growing aquatic ...
I’ll have to admit that this past winter has not been so bad here in the midlands. It hasn’t gotten real cold, and there has ...