Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

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Scientists have solved the mystery of how Amphibolis antarctica, Australia’s strange sea nymph seagrass, reproduces underwater.

Pollination dynamics within plant communities arise from intricate mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and their animal vectors. These interactions govern the transfer of conspecific ...

If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be wondering how to pollinate tomatoes effectively – especially when nature isn't doing the job. While tomato flowers are ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilize themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as "selfing", ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...

I've spent several years living in the wide-open spaces of Wyoming, and as an avid hiker, I enjoy the natural wonders that flourish in our windswept landscapes. Among them are the myriad ...