Inside the seed is something called an embryo, a tiny little plant surrounded by stuff that feeds it. This is called the endosperm. The outside of the seed has a coat which surrounds the embryo to ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid seeds ...

When hybrid seeds fail to develop, the reason often lies in the endosperm—a tissue in plant seeds that provides nutrients to the growing embryo, much like the placenta nourishes mammalian embryos.