New insight on how an enzyme ensures the correct growth of pollen tubes in flowering plants has been published today in the open-access journal eLife. The study reveals an unexpected role of KATANIN ...

Last June, Aaron Flansburg felt the temperature spike and knew what that meant for his canola crop. A fifth-generation grower in Washington state, Flansburg times his canola planting to bloom in the ...

New research is unraveling the unknown receptors and mechanism for fertilization in plants. Pollen tubes are attracted by LURE peptides, which are produced from ovules, to bring about fertilization. A ...

A group of scientists at Nagoya University has succeeded in discovering AMOR, a sugar chain molecule that increases the fertilization efficiency in plants. AMOR was found to be responsible for ...

Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes, known as polyploids, are salt-tolerant or drought-resistant and often achieve higher yields. However, newly formed polyploid plants are often sterile or have ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last June, Aaron Flansburg felt the temperature spike and knew ...

You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move. Most mammals and humans have a double set of chromosomes—and as a rule, ...

New insight on how an enzyme ensures the correct growth of pollen tubes in flowering plants has just been published. New insight on how an enzyme ensures the correct growth of pollen tubes in ...

Pollen tubes are attracted by LURE peptides, which are produced from ovules, to bring about fertilization. In their recent report published in Nature, a pair of plant biologists at Nagoya University ...