Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. This study shows that the wheat major QTL gene-encoded ...

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The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

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

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

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Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...