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 ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Flowering strips -- plants used to augment bee foraging habitats -- can help increase bee reproduction but may also increase pathogen infection rates. Flowering strips -- pollinator-friendly rows of ...

We investigated the effects of plant density on cleistogamous (CL) and chasmogamous (CH) flowering phenology and seed production in a natural Impatiens capensis population, by censusing individually ...

Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through plant-pollinator mismatch but through frost damage, a new study shows. Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

New Zealand has 2,200 native flowering plants and 85% of them grow nowhere else, including some spectacular displays that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Mark Johnson, associate professor of biology, has joined a consortium of seven other researchers in four European countries to develop the fullest understanding ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Temperate grasses of the subfamily Festucioideae can be grouped into two main categories according to their environmental control of flowering ...