This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how flowers play a central role in the reproductive cycle of plants. Their striking array of colors, patterns, fragrances, and nectar all require lots of ...

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 ...

Scientist have discovered that pollen, the organ that contains the plant male gametes, communicate with the pistil, their female counterpart, using a mechanism commonly observed in the nervous system ...

Research by plant scientists has uncovered a snapshot of evolution in progress, by tracing how a gene mutation over 100 million years ago led flowers to make male and female parts in different ways.

H. macrantha flowers have both male and female reproductive organs. To avoid mating with themselves, individual flowers go through a male phase and then a female phase. They rely on hummingbirds to ...

NCERT Solutions for Class 7 Science, Chapter 12 - Reproduction in Plants is available here. This chapter is also available here for download in PDF format. Download link is given at the end of this ...

Ed Witkowski receives funding from National Research Foundation - Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB). Kelsey Glennon receives funding from the National Research Foundation.