You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move.

Seeds provide most of the calories humanity eats, yet the cells that decide how big each seed becomes have remained a mystery ...

A research team reveals a critical cellular mechanism that enables this navigation: the dynamic remodeling of actin filaments at the tip of pollen tubes.

In flowering plants, male and female reproductive structures can be found in the same individual plant. The organ of sexual reproduction is the flower. Male gametes are found in pollen grains and ...

What special parts does a plant have and how do these parts eventually make seeds? Find out in this Bitesize Primary KS2 science guide. ... This means the ovule can turn the pollen into seeds.

Pollen-ovule ratios (P/O's) of flowering plants, including grasses, reflect their breeding system and these can be divided into five classes: xenogamy, facultative xenogamy, facultative autogamy, ...