A rare yam species, Dioscorea melanophyma, spreads its clones by fooling birds with fake berries, helping it survive without seeds.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...

Plants use a clever cellular signal to keep growing and flowering as seasons shift and climate conditions become less ...

During the age of the dinosaurs, the arrival of flowering plants as competitors could have spelled doom for primitive ferns. Instead, ferns diversified and flourished under the new canopy -- using a ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...

Plant cell biology is the study of all aspects of plant cells. It is particularly concerned with structure, growth, division, signalling, differentiation and death of plant cells. Micromitophagy is ...

Plant development is the process by which structures originate and mature as a plant grows. Plants produce new tissues and structures throughout their life from clusters of undifferentiated cells ...

Praise be to Allah, who fashioned humanity in the most excellent form and ordained the laws of the cosmos with wisdom and governance, making every illness a remedy and every hardship a path to ease; ...

Ferns switch between male and hermaphrodite forms, a process driven by chemical signals. Research shows the plant hormone auxin is key, triggering new growth centers when a male signal is absent.