2 Next, Mizuta hopes to identify the molecular mediator of this repelling system, unveiling another mystery of plant fertilization.

Flowering plants face a problem that we mammals are thankfully spared: how to avoid self-fertilization and, hence, inbreeding. To look at a flower, autopollination might seem inevitable--the long ...

This discovery is expected to lead to advances in research to improve plant fertilization efficiency as well as carbohydrate chemistry for plants. A group of scientists at Nagoya University has ...

In a sample of 4,000 flowers, rates of self-fertilization went from around 50% for the flowers collected two to three decades beforehand to roughly 80% for their naturally occurring descendants ...

This discovery is expected to lead to advances in research to improve plant fertilization efficiency as well as carbohydrate chemistry for plants. Nagoya, Japan - Dr. Akane Mizukami and Professor ...