Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

Flowering plants seem to have it easy when it comes to reproduction … make a flower and wait for some wind or a pollinator to transfer pollen from one flower to another. No courtship rituals, no ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...