This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The modular morphology of plants has important consequences for reproductive strategies. Ovules are packaged in discrete structures (flowers) ...

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The study was conducted to identify the self-incompatibility mechanism in Eucalyptus globulus ssp. globulus. Controlled self-and ...

Pollination could be a chaotic disaster. With hundreds of pollen grains growing long tubes to ovules to deliver their sperm to female gametes, how can a flower ensure that exactly two fertile sperm ...

In some deserts of the world, a series of heavy rains can trigger many species of plant to flower at the same time. Beneath Death Valley lies a massive seed bank of desert wildflowers and when heavy ...

The Mostly Male theory is the first to use evidence from gene phylogenies, genetics, modern plant morphology and fossils to explain the evolutionary origin of flowers. It proposes that flower ...

The tab1 mutant, in which the function of the TAB1 gene is lost, does not form an ovule. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of ...