Sonoma Botanical Garden is self-pollinating a rare magnolia from China in hopes of cultivating more specimens to preserve the genetic line.

“When they open, they have to hope that another flower is open nearby, because they can’t self-pollinate,” Daniel told The Associated Press. Botanists will attempt to hand-pollinate Putricia and leave ...

The legume family is one of the most spectacular examples of evolutionary success in the flowering plants ... Most legumes are pollinated by insects such as bees producing Acacia or clover honey.

"The movement of the stigma appendage represents, to the best of our knowledge, a novel self-pollination mechanism in orchids," the Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji writes in his paper now ...

Imagine a world where robotic insects take over the critical task of pollination, freeing farmers from relying on the whims of nature or resorting to manually pollinating crops with paintbrushes.

The robot reaches 35 cm/s, performs flips, and traces paths like “M-I-T,” highlighting control and endurance advances.