Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

If you have ever tried to identify a plant, you may have run across some strange words: monoecious and dioecious. What do these terms mean? Most plants have flowers that contain both male parts ...

In many dioecious plant species in which spatial distributions of males and females have been examined, the sexes are spatially segregated -- usually along an environmental gradient. Unless pollen is ...

Nitsch, J. P., Kurtz, E. B., Liverman, J. L., and Went, F. W., Amer. J. Bot., 39, 32 (1952).

"Botanical sexism' is real, and it's making you sneeze. In short, the list of potential culprits is long: Allergies stem from monoecious species as well as male dioecious trees. In New York City, 30 ...

DIŒCY, the separation of the sexes on to different diploid individuals, occurs irregularly throughout the higher plants. It must therefore have arisen a number of times during the evolution of this ...