“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Question: What is it about plants that makes it possible for you to grow them from a cutting rather than having to always start them from seed? I’m planning to expand my garden this season and want to ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about ...

Kathy Echols always issues a disclaimer when talking about her business (and favorite pastime) of growing and selling plants: Propagation is a disease, and once acquired, it’s not easy to get rid of.

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Sex acts are taking place in your garden. The birds, bees and the flowers in the trees are all involved. Flowers are the sexual organs of plants. Their blooming periods, as well as their attractive ...

Seeds are the end product of plant reproduction. Whether directly as food, or indirectly as animal feed, they provide around 80 percent of human calorie consumption. In the millennia since humans ...

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

Seed structure with a large central cell in the center (cell nucleus in yellow) surrounded by the tissue of the mother plant (purple). The mature central cell (left) is in a quiescent state until ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture. Farmers throughout the world spend ...