Sinking your teeth into a juicy, ripe watermelon is one of summer's greatest pleasures, particularly when you don't have to spit out any seeds. Indeed, humans have adapted many fruits to be seedless ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

QUESTION: How do seedless plants reproduce? ANSWER: Scientists estimate that there are approximately 400,000 species of plants on Earth. It is no surprise that there are many forms of plant ...

This week we’re featuring five winners of the 2012 Academic Minute Senior Superlatives. Chris Martine from SUNY Plattsburgh took home the Best Smile honor for letting us in on the secret world of ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

On a summer morning, hungry caterpillars make meals of lush tobacco and cotton leaves. The plants can't run away from the nasty predators, but studies show the tobacco and cotton have an astonishing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A study out of Harvard and Purdue universities is starting to unravel the genetic mechanisms that allow some plants to duplicate their entire genomes and continue to reproduce.

You find out the hard way that buying a holly sapling for your garden is a game of Christmas Russian roulette. There is a 50 per cent chance of getting a female which, if pollinated, produces festive ...

Activity 1 – Tap and find Activity 2 – Flowering plant quiz Activity 3 – Steps of flowering reproduction Activity 4 – Label the sexual organs Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female to ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-988001.mp3 Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Chris Martine of the State University of ...