This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how flowers play a central role in the reproductive cycle of plants. Their striking array of colors, patterns, fragrances, and nectar all require lots of ...
Flowering plants exhibit a remarkable array of sexual systems and reproductive strategies that govern gene flow, population structure and fitness. At one extreme, hermaphrodite flowers contain both ...
Plants exhibiting cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowering strategies employ a mixed‐mating system in which individuals produce both obligately self‐fertile closed flowers (cleistogamy) and open ...