fertilization

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Off-season produce is vulnerable to higher prices because of the increased price of diesel fuel for trucks, refrigeration and fertilization, said Stanley Lim, co-director of Michigan State University’s Food Access & Supply Chain Technology Lab.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

“I’ll be known as the fertilization president and that’s OK,” he boasted last spring during a women’s history event at the White House.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Using resources such as MSU's Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Core, the team assembled a detailed picture of the multi step, high energy process sperm rely on to achieve fertilization.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026

Some species and populations take this strangeness even further by producing seeds without fertilization -- a reproductive strategy that is extremely rare among plants.

From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025

About ten hours after fertilization of the egg, the embryo divides into three broad segments, head, thorax, and abdomen, and each segment divides into further subcompartments.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee