Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure reproduction.

Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move like animals they must adopt a different method of transferring these pollen ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global ... their movement patterns on the plantations and through the plant variety they visit. Researchers argue that the blanket promotion ...

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because they are both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...

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 ...

Endangered Abyssinian Wolves Observed Pollinating Flowers in Ethiopia, Making Them the First, Large Carnivorous Animal to Do So ... they could contribute to pollination," the team writes in ...

In response to litigation from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to ...

Animal pollination is important for two thirds of ... and cultivar identity drive crop quality, Trends in Plant Science (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.004 ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...