Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

IN connection with Prof. Groom's article on the pollination of exotic flowers (November 10, 1904, p. 26) the following notes may be of interest. The inflorescence of Marcgravia Umbellata is ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

Pollination refers to pollen being transferred from the male part of a flower to the female part. Even the easiest fruit trees to grow need this process to produce their delicious fruit.

Current models predict that selfing should be advantageous for plants experiencing unreliable pollination (selfing increases reproductive ... from Vancouver Island that differ in flower size. We’ve ...

Despite the team’s improvements, the robotic insects still cannot match the capabilities of natural pollinators. However, the researchers aim to improve the robots’ flight time and precision to enable ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...