If you've ever eaten a freshly grown tomato from a local farmers market, you know how anomalous and quirky natural plants can look. But this time, we’re taking the oddness of Mother Nature to a whole ...

Germination is a crucial step of plant development that requires the accomplishment of specific events during the late phase of embryogenesis. These events are the acquisition of dehydration tolerance ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Culture of excised fruits (siliques) of different ages of Arabidopsis thaliana in a solidified mineral salt medium supplemented with vitamins, ...

UConn Home and Garden Education Center alum Carol Quish wrote a short blog post about vivipary in 2014 that, over a decade later, is still one of our most-read pieces. Why are folks still interested ...

Animals produce offspring by two principal modes of reproduction. Vivipary (or viviparity) means producing live young — readily recognized as living because newly produced offspring wriggle, squirm, ...

• A Redditor posted a picture of a strawberry sprouting on the plant. • The picture disturbs some people due to a phenomenon called "trypophobia" — a fear of clusters of holes. If a picture of a ...

AT two localities near Brisbane, plants of Eleusine indica, an annual grass, have been observed with inflorescences bearing proliferated spikelets. Such plants were rare and in every instance bore ...