Researchers have identified a conserved Sexual Reproductive Cycle (SRC) shared by all land plants, rooted in alternating haploid and diploid generations. This evolutionary constant has been modified ...

Plant reproductive complexity increased in two, widely separated pulses likely driven by important evolutionary innovations, including the origin of seeds and flowers, according to a new study. These ...

Flowering plants exhibit a remarkable array of sexual systems and reproductive strategies that govern gene flow, population structure and fitness. At one extreme, hermaphrodite flowers contain both ...

Nanjing, China: A new study published in Biological Diversity has revealed deep evolutionary principles that have governed the reproduction of land plants over the past 400 million years. By ...