When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air – ...

Plants spread their seeds in lots of different ways. This is called seed dispersal. Some seeds are transported by the wind and are shaped to float, glide or spin through the air. NARRATOR ...

It features live footage with superimposed terms like seed coat, embryo, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon, and discusses the ...

The Woodland Trust has led the project to sow 75,000 seeds of trees native to Atlantic temperate rainforest, including ...

Complex mechanisms of pollen dispersal over long distances may practically preclude the attainment of uncontaminated seeds using conventional strategies for seed production. The real risks arising ...

As Leonardo da Vinci did with his "aerial screw", researchers will take inspiration from plant seeds which use flying dispersal mechanism and burrowing strategies to penetrate into the soil, such as ...

The authors write they hope the study will draw attention to the value of aardvarks for the seed dispersal of C. humifructus, which has greatly declined in countries like South Africa.

and ended on Friday with their final sagebrush seed dispersal. Each trip took almost an hour with 30 total loads of seed that were taken out. “They fill (the plane) up with seed and make like ...