Flowers are mainly made up of four parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and the pistil. Every part has it's unique and different function to make flower grow, fertilise and fruit production.

Pollination, essential to much of life on earth, requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule. In new research, scientists describe the genetic and regulatory factors that ...

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Data on pollen and pistil traits from 14 Argentinean Nyctaginaceae species with starch or lipids as pollen reserves are presented. We expect ...

Terminal drought during the reproductive stage is a major constraint to yield of chickpea in many regions of the world. Termination of watering (WS) during podding in a small-seeded desi chickpea ...

Self-incompatibility is a self/non-self recognition system that allows the pistil of a flower to reject self-pollen and accept non-self pollen to generate genetic diversity. This image relates to an ...