Smaller plants are the main drag on both seed production and synchrony in their populations.
Tag - plant reproduction
Erin Zimmerman
How do you get more DNA down a pollen tube?
A common event for flowering plants is whole genome duplication (WGD), where a plant gets extra chromosomes. It’s often studied in mature plants, but there can also be extra copies of the genome in the pollen, and...
Alex Assiry
Pollen limitation and reproductive assurance in a fragmented landscape
Humans have transformed landscapes, leaving remnant habitats embedded within a complex matrix. For many plants, the associated factors of decreased population size and increased land-use intensity surrounding them are...
botanyone
The Switch To Generation Sex…
Hugh Dickinson on a new article in Science that sheds more light on the Alternation of the Generations. When does a diploid plant decide to become a haploid? Anyone who has sat in a botany class from high school onwards...
Guest Author
Call for Papers: Special issue on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction
Botanists have long been fascinated by the extraordinary diversity in flowering plant reproductive patterns and have sought to understand the ecological processes and genetic mechanisms influencing plant mating. Over...
