artificial act of vegetative propagation. How the banana has got away without pollination for so many thousands of years owes much to the hand of man. Although wild bananas do pollinate their ...

(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

Their findings open up new avenues for the asexual propagation of crop plants. Seeds are the end product of plant reproduction. Whether directly as food, or indirectly as animal feed, they provide ...

Asexual conundrums Parthenogenetic species are rare but found among a variety of life, including reptiles, amphibians, ...

Plant propagation falls into two main categories: sexual and asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction involves the flowering part of the plant, where pollen (a male part) combines with the egg (a ...

This is shown by an investigation using artificial intelligence carried ... The variability among woody plants in their responses to asexual propagation techniques poses challenges and severe ...

Asexual reproduction is common among plants and insects. It is rarer among vertebrates. No mammals, as far as we know, do it in the wild. Yet a growing list of bird, shark, lizard and snake ...