Pollinators help plants grow and ecosystems thrive, but their decline threatens nature, biodiversity, and food security.

A flower is the reproductive part of flowering plants. Flowers have colourful petals. The petals surround the male and female parts of the flower. The male parts are called stamens,The female ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. The ovule nucellus generates and then nurtures the ...

Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...

Why do some organisms die immediately after reproducing (some salmon and bamboos, many insects, and all grain crops), while others live on to reproduce repeatedly (most plants and vertebrates)?

Furthermore, the institute's research focuses on the interactions between the genomes of mitochondria and chloroplasts and the one of the cell nucleus, as well as on the investigation of epigenetic ...