Hazelnuts have long been prized as a tasty and nutritious food. Found in forests statewide in Missouri, they are a favorite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Hazelnuts have long been prized as a tasty and nutritious food. Found in forests statewide in Missouri, they are a favorite ...

Many plants, including crops and the beautiful flowers we like to surround ourselves with, rely on pollination for survival. Pollination is not just the work of honeybees. Meet some of the buzzing, ...

MIT scientists are developing robotic insects that can help with pollination, potentially boosting crop production without ...

Current models predict that selfing should be advantageous for plants experiencing unreliable pollination (selfing increases reproductive assurance and ... from Vancouver Island that differ in flower ...

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

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 ...

Hand-pollination of the pungent corpse flower results in hundreds of seeds that will be sent across the world to help preserve the endangered species.