Research conducted at the University of São Paulo shows how interaction between plant hormone gibberellin and small RNA molecules enables development of ovaries, followed by fruit and seeds. A ...

In an article published in the journal Development, researchers at the University of São Paulo's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP) in Brazil describe mechanisms relating to the ...

Yoko Mizuta, a plant biologist at the Nagoya University, became fascinated by this attraction-repulsion dance over a decade ago.Yet the available imaging techniques did not allow Mizuta to visualize ...

Without flowers, many plants would not be able to reproduce, and many insects would not be able to get enough protein or carbohydrates to survive. Pollination takes place when pollen lands on the ...

A researcher from Kobe University has discovered the function of the structure that gave rise to the name of a fungus-eating plant 130 years after it was given, exposing a new method by which plants ...

Harvard scientists say they can grow ovaries in a lab 00:58. BOSTON – Women's health, in general, has not received the same funding and attention as conditions that affect men.

I t was a finding too striking to be trusted. Elvan Böke, a molecular biologist at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Spain, was studying how immature egg cells in animals, called oocytes, stay ...