Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...

In higher plants, successful pollination and fertilization are crucial for the success of reproduction. The male gametes, sperm cells are non-motile and thus require transportation to the ovules via ...

Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...

The pistils of the artificially self and cross-pollinated flower buds were collected without separating them from petals and sepals after 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 24 and 48 h after pollination (HAP) followed ...