Double fertilization appears to have evolved as a product of change directly related to an accelerated rate and timing of reproduction. In this review, the focus is on the angiosperm male gametophyte, ...

IN the history of angiosperm embryology there have been three distinct periods: the first, in which the chief aim was to unravel the chief facts regarding the development of the pollen and embryo sac, ...

In the flowering plant world, reproduction means an intricate succession of events. It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper reviews the origin, nature, systematic distribution, and the respective function of the highly variable and diverse thread-forming ...

Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...