More than 200 years ago, the poet, philosopher, and natural scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made the remarkable suggestion that flower organs represent modified leaves. By analyzing mutations ...

Flower's bellows organ blasts pollen at bird pollinators. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 07 / 140703125533.htm. Cell Press.

Flower organ's cells make random decisions that determine size Date: July 21, 2010 Source: California Institute of Technology Summary: The sepals of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana -- commonly ...

"We've known for a decade how to convert the flower organs into leaves, but we haven't been able to convert leaves into flower organs. We knew that we were missing a piece of the puzzle, and now ...

Flowers are the sexual organs of more than 360,000 species of plants alive today, all derived from a single common ancestor in the distant past. This ancestral plant, ...

Flowers rely on a newly identified protein to develop properly with all of their organs, according to the research team who made the discovery. The team, led by Penn State biologists, identified the ...

Among the revelations that arose from her 13-year-long investigation was the degree of control that a flower’s female sex organs have over the fertilisation process.

Flowers may look delicate—but flowering plants, what scientists call angiosperms, are one of the most successful evolutionary organisms on the planet. Including more than 350,000 known species ...

There is no other known example among plants of such a precise and anatomically distinct bellows organ. Axinaea flowers appear in clusters of a few to more than 20 flowers, with pink, red, yellow ...