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 ...

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. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

William (Ned) Friedman (at right) is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Charles Darwin called the relatively sudden rise of flowering plants an “abominable mystery.” ...