Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

Mycorrhiza assist plants in obtaining water ... Vivanco, J. M. Root Exudation and Rhizosphere Biology. Plant Physiology 132, 44-51 (2003). Wardle DA, Bardgett RD, Klironomos JN, Setala H, van ...

Plants secrete similar water droplets ... The latter term is most often used to describe the exudation of plant juices, which occurs after cutting the stem or damaging the trunk.

This observation is explained by another key feature of stem cells that is shared between plants and animals, as explained below. The ability of stem cells to constantly generate new tissues has ...

accompanied by altering root exudation, enriching potential beneficial bacteria, and changing functions of the microbiome. The composition of the root exudates from grafted plants was analyzed ...