Understanding the evolution of flowering plants through the SHUKR gene sheds light on plant adaptation and survival in ...

Though the heads were sterile and seedless ... or simply plucked off and eaten. Like Arabidopsis, its life cycle is short; it flowers only 14 days after being sown. It is also resistant to ...

A new plant would produce sterile male screwworms; adult flies will then be released into infested areas by a special aircraft. Before this outbreak, flies were dispersed in Central America.

The plants were female sterile, but male fertile. A total of 1800 seed capsules from these plants individually were sown to give 1800 families with 15 plants each, giving a total of 27 000 M1 plants.

The CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says a domestic male sterile fly production facility is needed to combat New World screwworm. Colin Woodall says the current facility, located in ...

Mutations in these genes cause anomalies that may impair fertility, and many abnormalities affecting plant fertility or causing total male sterility have been detected ... for meiotic analysis was the ...