What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of ...

Tracing the potato’s deep ancestry, researchers have revealed a surprising origin story: modern potatoes emerged from natural ...

A team of scientists has successfully completed the first gap-free, telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly for Forsythia ...

Asexual plant reproduction may seed new approach for agriculture Date: March 9, 2010 Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summary: A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually ...

Also called vegetative propagation, asexual reproduction is a great way to get mature plants faster than growing from seed. Plus, it’s fun and easy. Most plants asexually propagate naturally.

Studies by scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara show that sexual reproduction wins out, in an evolutionary sense, over asexual reproduction in a major study that included 34 ...

Baby smooth-hound shark could be first confirmed case of asexual reproduction in species Shark was born at Sardinia's Acquario Cala Gonone By Julia Musto Fox News Published August 19, 2021 3:51pm EDT ...

This form of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, has never been recorded in California condors before, and rarely in any type of bird. “This is truly an amazing discovery,” says ...

But maybe—just maybe—we’re wrong. After all, asexual reproduction, which includes cloning and budding, is a far older form of reproduction than sex.

In a first, scientists find genetic cause for ‘virgin birth’ in animals Fruit flies that normally must mate to reproduce can be genetically modified to give birth asexually for generations to come ...

Asexual reproduction can have negative effects on genome evolution in stick insects, study finds Date: February 24, 2022 Source: University of Cologne Summary: Stick insects that reproduce ...