Researchers led by Dr. LI Hongju from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed that the female gamete in flowering plants controls ...

CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously ...

Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) are required for pollen tube germination and elongation, an essential process in plant fertilization. But their role in monocot plants remains unexplored.

The peptide, named NON-DEFENSIN PEPTIDE ATTRACTANT 1 (NPA1), represents the first non-defensin-type attractant identified in dicots and expands the known diversity of fertilization cues in flowering ...

Considered natural allies against climate change due to their absorption of carbon dioxide, plants may however offer more ...

In the flowering plant world, reproduction means an intricate succession of events. It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive ...

A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance. The model can be used to provide convenient maximum likelihood estimation of the ...

Plants are capable of producing seedless fruit through a process called parthenocarpy, and humans have long leveraged it in agriculture. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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