From garlic mustard to tree-of-heaven, a UConn educator shares tips on removing invasive plant species from spring gardens.

Activity: Grow a plant via asexual reproduction Three years later, he sent a pair of them to a friend in England. On this friend’s death, they were sold to the Duke of Devonshire, who grew ...

Thai researchers have successfully enabled corals to better tolerate global warming, in an effort to mitigate the risk of ...

While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...

The aphid is a family of soft-bodied insects that suck the sap from the stems and leaves of plants. In many aphid species, the most common strategy is to alternate between asexual reproduction in ...

Fascinatingly, some parthenogenetic stick insects still produce infertile male offspring occasionally, suggesting their relatively recent evolutionary transition to asexual reproduction. The eggs of ...

Fruit trees and vines can be reproduced identically through asexual reproduction by grafting scions ... out of my best work by name thieves, plant thieves and in various ways too well known ...

Some animals are able to reproduce without a partner. In the animal kingdom, this unique process is known as parthenogenesis.

Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now shown that the asexual reproduction of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) is largely regulated by bacterial metabolites. Beta-carotene ...

"This finding provides key insights into how reproduction without a mate works in reptiles, but it also reshapes some of our long-held views about the limitations of asexual species. Rather than ...

Here it is shown that the handedness of mirror-image flowers in Cyanella alba is not genetically determined but linked to the spiral arrangement of leaves and asymmetric auxin activity. This ...