Grape phylloxera -- the insect that nearly wiped out wine production at the end of the 19th century in France -- hijacks a grape vine's reproductive programs to create a leaf gall, which it uses as a ...

Penn researchers and colleagues have discovered how plants respond to seasonal flowering cues while protecting the stem cells at their growing tip, enabling continuous reproduction in changing ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Reproduction in many crop species is impaired above 30° to 35°C; however, the sensitivity of reproduction in the natural flora remains uncertain. Studies focusing on the effect of ...

The journal Science China Life Sciences published a study reported by Academician Hang Sun’s group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team demonstrated the ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them — a parasite that lives underground, lacks chlorophyll, and in some cases reproduces ...