In lab experiments and field studies, the team tracked the beetles with fluorescent dyes as they moved from cone to cone.

RNA-expression patterns in the tips of the weevils’ antennae suggests that these organs produce a protein known to help other ...

Recent discussions of animal development, particularly at the level of molecular genetics, have emphasized modularity, dissociation and co-option as basic principles of evolutionary developmental ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

The male reproduction organs of tomato plants cannot cope with high temperatures. When temperatures rise above 32 degrees Celsius for several consecutive days, their appearance changes and they ...

Plant reproduction plays a vital role in our food systems and the balance of ecosystems, yet it remains a complex process. Plants exhibit a range of reproductive strategies: some are strictly male or ...

In plants, flowering is a crucial process for reproductive success and continuity of the species through time. Fruit production requires the perfect development of reproductive structures. Abscission, ...

DFG Research Unit “Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction” (ICIPS) will be funded for another four years The Research Unit “Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction” ...

Flowers, the reproductive organs of angiosperms, are more varied than the equivalent structures of any other group of organisms, and flowering plants also have an unrivalled diversity of sexual ...

An understanding of certain basic principles of horticultural science is sometimes important in gardening. When it comes to fruit production, this is certainly true. Plants that are grown for their ...