Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

Self-incompatibility is viewed as a mechanism by which the female can evaluate the quality of the male gametophyte. This does not preclude its function as an outbreeding mechanism, but rather expands ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract • The woody stems of coniferous gymnosperms produce specialised compression wood to adjust the stem growth orientation in response to ...