New research from the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Biology finds evidence of 'genetic imprinting' in a non-vascular plant for the first time.
Tag - sex
Michela Osnato
Plant food and sex (lots of sex!)
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and your Food by Norman C Ellstrand 2018. University of Chicago Press. What comes to mind at the mention of sex on the kitchen table? * Perhaps many different things –...
Nigel Chaffey
More myth-busting!
It’s a tribute to the fantasticness of plants – and photosynthesis in particular – that even animals want to be like them. Arguably, none more so than some sea slugs, which for many millennia have eaten seaweeds and...
Bryophyte ‘sperminator’…
Co-opting animals to help with pollination is a major event in flower (angiosperm) biology – and is very much a do-or-die act. But have you ever considered that a similar role might be performed by animals in the case...
