Nightshades' mating habits strike uneasy evolutionary balance
Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 13:10
in Biology & Nature
Most flowering plants, equipped with both male and female sex organs, can fertilise themselves and procreate without the aid of a mate. But this may only present a short-term adaptive benefit, according to a team of researchers led by two University of Illinois at Chicago biologists, who report that long-term evolutionary survival of a species favours flowers that welcome pollen from another plant...