have revealed that the female gamete in flowering plants controls fertilization recovery by secreting pollen tube attractants. The researchers, who explored why ovules continue to attract pollen ...

In a sample of 4,000 flowers, rates of self-fertilization went from around 50% for the flowers collected two to three decades beforehand to roughly 80% for their naturally occurring descendants ...

New research may help explain the amazing diversity in the world's flowering plants, a question that ... "They would usually describe how fertilization was occurring, but they never tell you ...

Since the discovery of double fertilization over a century ago, proteins mediating gamete interactions in flowering plants have remained elusive. A lily protein located at the sperm-cell surface ...

This sets the stage for fertilization of the egg and would begin the process of seed formation -- had the reproductive act been completed. "In Cretaceous flowers we've never before seen a fossil ...

With sweet nectar and protein-packed pollen, some blooms lure bats and lizards as well as the proverbial birds and bees to play unwitting roles in fertilization. Other flowers, which evolution has ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. Kobe ...

"Our project will deliver the first comprehensive view of the molecular evolution of plant sexual reproduction and will provide insights into the origins of fertilization in flowering plants ...