For many plants, spring is just a really good time. They have endured a cold, dark, hard winter and in some places, winters ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 77, No. 12 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1582-1598 (17 pages) Since the initial discovery of double fertilization in angiosperms in 1898, a number of reports of double ...

A collaborative research group has succeeded in identifying an important transcription factor, GCAM1, which allows liverwort plants to asexually reproduce through creating clonal progenies (vegetative ...

Scientists have discovered a 100-million-year-old chunk of amber that captures what they say is the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant. The now-extinct but well-preserved ...

Background and Aims Polyploidy is arguably the single most important genetic mechanism in plant speciation and diversification. It has been repeatedly suggested that polyploids show higher vegetative ...