“For centuries people have asked how and why this extraordinary plant sends its seeds into the world in such a violent way,” Chris Thorogood, study co-author and Oxford Botanic Garden Deputy Director ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt? The findings, achieved through a combination of ...

Terrestrial plants began making a permanent home on land from the sea at least 420 million years ago. Updated methodologies in genetic data research has determined this number could be as old as 500 ...

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 ...

GALAN1,2, whose work was reviewed by Mather3, showed that the cucurbitous plant Ecballium elaterium has been shown to exhibit the simplest sex-determining mechanism ever found in higher plants. A ...

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Ecballium elaterium (L.) A. Rich. National Museum of Natural History Object Details Biogeographical Region 12 - Southwestern Europe Collector Collector unknown Record Last Modified 4 Sep 2018 Specimen ...

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Ecballium elaterium (L.) A. Rich. National Museum of Natural History Biogeographical Region 13 - Southeastern Europe Collector Todaro Record Last Modified 4 Sep 2018 Specimen Count 1 Collection Date - ...