Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and ...

Natalia Dudareva, associate professor of horticulture, and her colleagues have recently identified the molecular mechanisms that cause petunias and snapdragons to decrease scent production after ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Ryushiro Kasahara at Nagoya University in Japan, identified a genetic sequence in thale cress that is essential for plant reproduction. As this region is ...

Flowering plants go through a complicated double-fertilization process that involves a lot of sperm. But until today, researchers hadn’t fully understood the genetic mechanism behind plant sperm ...

A recent Purdue University study has uncovered the processes responsible for shutting down scent production in certain flowers once they've been pollinated - a finding that may help the ...