Plants: Calcium and reproduction go together like the birds and the bees
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and requires extensive communication between the male and female reproductive cells. New research reports discoveries in the chemical signaling process that guides flowering plant fertilization.