Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

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

Scientists have made a fresh discovery about how flowers reproduce so prolifically. Researchers at Brown University, Rhode Island, in America, have investigated the way flowers control sperm ...

Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a new study. Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a ...

Sweet bribes buy plants survival: ants act as loyal bodyguards, defending against herbivores but sometimes disrupting ...

Mother Nature is a great photographer and she knows how to preserve precious moments, just as how an amber from 100 million years back preserved tiny flowers in the middle of producing seeds to ensure ...

Getting caught "doing it" is embarrassing enough, but imagine being frozen in flagrante delicto for a hundred million years. That's what happened to a species of flowering plant encased in amber ...

AMHERST – A new study reported this week suggests that flower strips offer benefits for bumblebee colony reproduction, but some plants do increase infection risk for the bees. The research was ...

Intracellular Na⁺/H⁺ (NHX) antiporters have important roles in cellular pH and Na⁺, K⁺ homeostasis. The six Arabidopsis thaliana intracellular NHX members are divided into two groups, endosomal (NHX5 ...