Next, the plant produces flowers with stigma and stamen. These help the flowers to reproduce. Insects are also important. They move pollen around from one plant to another, helping the flower to ...

A University of Maryland study reveals an evolutionary trade-off that young plants face to develop disease resistance.

Bulb – The initial underground stage of a growing plant. Flowers – Flowers are brightly coloured to attract insects which then pollinate the seeds and help it to reproduce. Fruit – Some ...

The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series. But the plant was known to cause thousands of deaths a year in the past.

From toddlers in daycare to seedlings in forests, young organisms tend to get sick more easily than adults—a phenomenon that has long puzzled parents ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...

Pollinators are animals that help to transport pollen from one location to another in the plant reproduction process ... over 70% of cultivated plants to reproduce. However, the diversity of ...