Pollination, essential to much of life on earth, requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule. In new research, scientists describe the genetic and regulatory factors that ...

In this video we will learn about the structure of the female reproductive part (pistil) of a flower. Your career begins here! At Jagranjosh.com, our vision is to ...

Madrid-based nature photographer David de los Santos Gil spent nine months capturing the delicate dance of flowers in bloom. The resulting time-lapse–the product of 50,000 photographs of daisies, ...

Flowering plants face a problem that we mammals are thankfully spared: how to avoid self-fertilization and, hence, inbreeding. To look at a flower, autopollination might seem inevitable--the long, ...

The anthers of macadamia flowers dehisced 1-2 days pre-anthesis, but the stigma did not support pollen tube growth until 1-2 days post-anthesis. Esterase activity and extracellular secretion of ...