"There's male and female watermelon ... like many other plants, have male and female flowers, according to The Encyclopedia Britannica. But only the female flowers yield fruit, and the fruits ...

Sinking your teeth into a juicy, ripe watermelon is one of ... no seed or fruit grows. You may like Do sperm really race to the egg? Plants: Facts about our oxygen providers Man gets sperm-making ...

Seeing as it’s watermelon season ... Bonus Explainer: Why do “seedless watermelons” have seeds?They only look like they do. Seedless watermelons are sterile hybrids, but they sometimes ...

Another summer favorite, watermelon ... plants were very thin and either an off-white or purple color. They typically had a forked root, like today's wild carrots. The modern apple's ancestor ...

Using this information, they’ve cross-bred domesticated watermelon with evolutionary cousins to develop varieties more resistant to diseases and pests. For archaeologists, plant remains like ...

Next time you bite into a slice of watermelon or a cob of corn, consider this: These familiar fruits and veggies didn't always look and ... to give plants desired traits — like resistance ...