While all seeds produced within a fruit have the same maternal genome, the paternal genomes of seeds can come from the pollen of one or more paternal parents. A common assumption about flowering ...

Have you ever looked at a flower up close? Or wondered how plants are pollinated? Many of us know that for seeds to be made, pollen "lands on a flower" but what happens next? Welcome to the secret sex ...

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than18,000 plant species from the tropics. These images are being used to train a ...

Flower fertility depends on an exquisite hormonal balance. In lilies, researchers have discovered that two genes—LoBLH6 and LoMYB65—work together to orchestrate this balance and safeguard pollen ...

We know that plants must be pollinated in order to reproduce. However, the method of pollen distribution varies depending on the plant. Each spring, we get a good idea of one method of pollen ...

Pollen from 18,000 tropical plants was digitized in Panama. The images will be used to train a machine-learning model to identify pollen grains, as part of the PollenGEO project Elisabeth King A team ...