Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex 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 ...

Figure 1: Two Ca 2+ spikes detected in the egg cell during double fertilization. Figure 2: The second Ca 2+ spike in the egg cell corresponds to egg cell fertilization. Figure 3: The central cell ...

Researchers found that attractant peptides released by female tissues initiate rapid depolymerization and repolymerization of actin at the leading edge of the pollen tube tip, steering its direction ...

Mark Johnson, associate professor of biology, has joined a consortium of seven other researchers in four European countries to develop the fullest understanding yet of how fertilization evolved in ...

Question: My friend who has good success with indoor plants fertilizes her plants every time she waters them. Is that the best way to fertilize indoor plants? Answer: There are at least three ...

Flowering plants naturally know when they need to spare or perish their cells. In a new study, an international group of plant biologists has examined the ovules of plant cells by live-imaging to ...