A seed is like a tiny parcel containing everything a new plant needs to start growing. It contains the young plant (embryo) and store of food. This is all wrapped up in a tough, protective coat.

Soaking seeds before planting them mimics the favorable growing conditions after a spring rain. Water is what wakes up many ...

"That's an amazing phenomenon." The embryo models were allowed to grow and develop until they were comparable to an embryo 14 days after fertilisation. In many countries, this is the legal cut-off ...

From dust-like orchid seeds to the massive double coconuts, the variation in seed size is one of nature's most striking ...

Germination close germinationThe process where seeds sprout and begin to grow. occurs when a new plant grows out from a seed. All seeds require three conditions for successful germination: Water ...

Christine and Bernard Thisse, a wife-and-husband team at the University of Virginia, have created what is perhaps the most sophisticated model of the mammalian embryo to date. Their model offers a ...

If the hybrid plants could reproduce asexually ... Sundaresan's team previously showed that BBM1 is an essential trigger for plant embryo development, and that activating this gene in eggs ...

From dust-like orchid seeds to the massive double coconuts, the variation in seed size is one of nature's most striking features. Large seeds, such as ...