The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

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RNA-expression patterns in the tips of the weevils’ antennae suggests that these organs produce a protein known to help other ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. This study shows that the wheat major QTL gene-encoded ...

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