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 ...

Because plants are also capable of asexual reproduction, it’s common to use cuttings to develop cultivars that are clones of a dioecious, male flowering plant. This is how fruitless olive and ...

Understanding plant fertilization is important to secure food stocks and increase plant yields. A key part of this process involves signaling molecules. In the reproduction of thale cress, the ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a plant reproduction biologist at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction, which led to a method for ...

A research group led by Nagoya University identified a genetic sequence that is essential for plant reproduction. As this region is found in all plant species, it is expected to contribute to ...