It's easy to think of strawberries as part of the berry family. But, when we learn that foods like cucumbers are considered ...

Orphan genes, found only in specific lineages, are key drivers of new functions and phenotypic traits. This discovery lays a ...

Trust me, they’re worth seeking out. Botanically speaking, bananas are berries. A single banana develops from one pollinated flower containing one ovary, and the mature fruit contains three distinct ...

The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

The fleshy ovary wall surrounds the seeds ... Would you consider growing a well behaved, bush type of squash in your flower bed? As crazy as it seems, the right variety of bush squash can add ...

Expression profiling demonstrated that OGs were predominantly expressed in reproductive tissues, particularly in the stamen ...

A “fruit” refers to the edible part of the plant that develops from a seed into an ovary (or the product of a flower). Anything characterized as fruit contains one or more seeds and grows on a ...

You have probably seen this one’s bright butter-yellow flowers, the plants commonly very abundant in old agricultural fields and roadsides. The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and ...

(Side note: gross.) On the other hand, cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) are a true berry. "This means they develop from a ...

When finished blooming, the heads will appear as white powder-puffs, as the ovary of each tiny flower will sport a snow-white pappus, making it easy to get away in the breeze. A lot like a ...