Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

Pusan National University researchers identified two RALF peptides, OsRALF17 and OsRALF19, in rice (Oryza sativa) and characterized their role in pollen tube germination and elongation ...

The nucleus of the pollen grain passes through the pollen tube and joins with the egg cell ... Each fertilised ovule forms a seed. Seed dispersal is the transport of seeds from the plant to ...

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by studying 365-million-year-old seed plant fossils ...