Plant Reproduction

Mechanisms of Plant Reproduction: Questions and Approaches.

It is a daunting but exciting task to attempt both an orientation to plant development and an overview of the reviews in this special issue on plant reproduction. Our purpose in this article isto provide a guide to the key points of plant development and reproduction, pointing out not only the general themes that are common among angiosperms but also some of the exceptional species and events t...

Risk of plant extracts in rat reproduction

Traditional medicines derived from plants play an important role in health care systems all over the world. However, several studies have demonstrated possible fertility disturbs mainly in male and female rats. In this mini review, risks for rat reproduction are briefly described. Correspondence to: Prof. Dr. Romero Brandão-Costa, Department of Morphology and Animal Physiology, Federal Rural Un...

Plant reproduction: insights into the "abominable mystery".

An allometric model for seed plant reproduction

An allometric framework is used to construct a model for seed plant annual reproductive biomass based on standing leaf, stem and root biomass. According to this model, the scaling of reproduction is governed by numerous taxon-specific scaling exponents and constants that reflect the allometry of vegetative biomass partitioning. Although this allometry cannot be predicted a priori, the model acc...

Plant Reproduction: Self-Incompatibility to Go

In a new study, the Papaver rhoeas (poppy family) self-incompatibility system has been transferred into Arabidopsis thaliana, a distantly related plant with a very different floral structure. The simple poppy self-incompatibility system may finally make it possible to introduce this potentially valuable trait into any plant.