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The Love Life of Plants: How Female Flowers Pick Their Perfect Match


In a new study, published in EMBO Reports, researchers from Nagoya University explore the selective attraction and repulsion mechanisms in Arabidopsis plants during reproduction. Using a novel microscopic technique, they observed the unique way in which a female flower attracts a single male pollen

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