A research team has discovered a new tissue in plants that plays an essential role in seed formation by regulating the flow of nutrients into the seed. The team used their findings to increase the ...

What was their great innovation? Botanists call flowering plants angiosperms, from the Greek words for "vessel" and "seed." Unlike conifers, which produce seeds in open cones, angiosperms enclose ...

The moment a seed starts to grow is called ‘Germination’. Some people plant seeds in pots or in gardens to germinate. Plants in the wild have many different ways of scattering their seeds ...

However, the reality is that not all plants are best grown from seed. In fact, there are even a handful of plants you should ...

Moreover, unlike angiosperms, the leaves of Furcula did ... The authors also identified another group of mysterious seed plants, the Gigantopteridales, as another failed attempt during the Permian ...

particularly why flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate today's flora. "Since an unfertilized hypocotyl cannot become a seed in the first place, feeding it would be 'wasteful' for the plant," he ...

Clarence is in Terrey Hills, north of Sydney, to meet a nursery owner who is completely obsessed with growing native plants from seed. About 40 years ago Marina Grassecker started working for a ...

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 ...