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Narrator: A flower isn’t just a pretty thing you give to someone special. It’s actually a complicated part of a plant. It produces seeds through a process called pollination. The flower’s ...
Studying plant vegetative reproduction is key to increasing crop yield and for bioengineering. Kobe University research is ...
That's what happened to a species of flowering plant encased in amber originally collected in Myanmar (Burma) in 2001, a new study says. (See "Oldest Fossil of Mating Insects Found; Sex Positions ...
According to the researchers, the reproduction process seen in the 100-million-year old fossil is the same process used by modern flowering plants, or angiosperms.
The first corpse flower to ever bloom at the zoo, in September, 2018, gave Mr. Gellatly a chance to collect its pollen and experiment with different ways to preserve the plant’s genetic material.
A cluster of 18 flowers from the Crestaceous Period, contained within a well preserved fossil and discovered in an amber mine in Myanmar, reveal the oldest known evidence of sexual reproduction in a ...
Scientists have discovered a sexual reproduction process in microalgae that helps them to better understand algae and plant evolution. Their discovery could lead to new industrial applications for ...