Sexual reproduction is essential for the environmental adaptation and evolution of plants. Unlike angiosperms, which rely on pollen tube growth to deliver immotile sperm cells to the embryo sac for ...

The evolution of land plants is rooted in profound genomic innovations that enabled the transition from aquatic algae to the vast diversity of modern terrestrial flora. Comparative phylogenomic ...

Multiple paternity (polyandry) frequently occurs in flowering plants and animals and is assumed to have an important function in the evolution of reproductive traits. Polyandry in bryophytes may occur ...