Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...
Pollination in plants is the transfer of pollen from the anther (male part of the flower) to the stigma (female part). Following pollination, fertilization must then occur through the union of male ...
Background and aims The transition from outcrossing to selfing is a repeated pattern in angiosperm diversification and according to general theory this transition should occur quickly and mixed ...
The crucial role of insects in the pollination of flowering plants is well known, but algal fertilization assisted by marine animals was hitherto deemed non-existent. A team has now discovered that ...
Scientists identified a gene responsible for triggering plants to develop fruits and seeds. This finding may help agriculturists bypass pollination altogether for food production, which will be ...
Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...
In search of answers on how underwater plants are pollinated, scientists have recently discovered the bees of the sea. For centuries, scientists believed that pollination of seagrasses like dioecious ...
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