What we can say is that Nature has safely been employing what you might call a 'cloning' process in plants for millions of years, and that there must be good evolutionary reasons why these ...

A new study revealed that self-cloning sea grass located off ... in certain environmental conditions. The process occurs more often among some plants, fungi and bacteria. The discovery makes ...

cryotherapy and chemotherapy to improve the odds of recovering clean plants.” That’s easy for her to say. The cloning process is highly technical and requires advanced laboratory equipment and ...

Though useful for creating vigorous hybrids, the process frustrates breeders who wish to duplicate prize plants. But a few plant species, including apple and mango and orange trees, reproduce ...

Unlike other types of seagrass, which reproduce sexually, this meadow appeared to be continually cloning ... through a process known as "horizontal rhizome extension," in which the plant grows ...

That’s because by helping solve one of the fundamental questions in the evolution of plants, we may also have brought closer the possibility of cloning ... cells via a process called meiosis ...

The seagrass Posidonia australis. Rachel Austin via the University of Western Australia Scientists have discovered the world’s largest plant—a seagrass in Australia that grew more than 70 ...