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 ...
The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...
Researchers have identified a genetic sequence that is essential for plant reproduction. As this region is found in all plant species, it is expected to contribute to future crossbreeding initiatives ...
Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the colour of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even if we live in a big ...
Postdoc Imtiyaz Khanday and Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan with cloned rice plants in a UC Davis greenhouse, December 2018. Khanday, Sundaresan and colleagues have solved the problem of propagating ...
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A rare parasitic plant lives underground without photosynthesis and reproduces asexually
Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...
Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 65, No. 17 (2014), pp. 5093-5107 (15 pages) Cystatins are tightly bound and reversible inhibitors of cysteine proteases in C1A and C13 peptidase families, which ...
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