Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

Ljudmilla Borisjuk. To put it simply, if the pod and/or seed is small in early spring due to poor growing conditions on the parent plant, the embryo inside the seed and the seed itself will be sma ...

A stem-cell derived human embryo model showing blue cells (embryo), yellow cells (yolk sac) and pink cells (placenta). Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo ...

It contains the young plant (embryo) and store of food. This is all wrapped up in a tough, protective coat. For a seed to start growing, it needs the right conditions. These can be different ...

Plants have stem cells too ... A small bundle of cells made from embryonic stem cells is called an embryo. A documentary on the discussion around pioneering work into stem cells.

is a method of propagating plants asexually in aseptic conditions. The four main steps of micropropagation are establishment, multiplication, rooting and acclimatization. An additional step, ...