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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

• 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...