Humans have been growing and gathering food for millennia. During this time, we have learned how to save seeds each season and replant them the following year. By doing this, we are participating in the natural cycle of plant regeneration and also to a certain extent using it to shape the future of the plants that we grow. The process of seed saving and selecting which seeds to save are formally called seed propagation and roguing. By selecting which seed to save, we have man

At some point in the evolution of life on earth, plants discovered sex. This may sound mysterious and exciting, but, simply put, the ability to mix and match genes allowed for better adaptation and evolution as conditions on our planet changed. Plants did this by creating mechanisms for pollen to be moved between flowers or between plants. When pollen finds the pistil of a female or bisexual flower, what results is germination, the combining of genes from the two parent plant