When hybrid seeds fail to develop, the reason often lies in the endosperm—a tissue in plant seeds that provides nutrients to the growing embryo, much like the placenta nourishes mammalian embryos.

When hybrid seeds fail to develop, the reason often lies in the endosperm—a tissue in plant seeds that provides nutrients to ...

What are ways species exchange genes with each other? Hybridization and gene flow are shortcuts to biodiversity that don’t always involve differentiation. By continuing to study hybridizing ...

“By combining generation assets together, including storage, solar, and wind, into “hybrid power plants,” an individual plant owner can 1) develop economies of scope in terms of land usage ...

Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing ...

Mendel had thus determined what happens when two plants that are hybrid for one trait are crossed with each other, but he also wanted to determine what happens when two plants that are each hybrid ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...