Fertilizer is commonly used to help boost crop production, but a new study indicates that its use could actually reduce ...

In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you’re a gardener ...

The results of cowslip observations carried out with the help of citizen scientists from 32 countries in over 5,200 locations shed light on the well-being of insect-pollinated plants under changing ...

Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week ...

One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike ...

It can take many insect visits for a flower to be fully pollinated. For example, cucumbers need nine visits. Without this, a cucumber might develop but is misshapen. This is how plants reproduce ...

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

However, the part of the plant we eat is the fruit. The part of any flowering plant that holds seeds is botanically the fruit of the plant.

Imagine a world where robotic insects take over the critical task of pollination, freeing farmers from relying on the whims of nature ... durations in excess of 10,000 seconds and enhancing the robots ...

Pollinators influence the quality of crops through their movement patterns on the plantations and through the plant variety they visit. Researchers argue that the blanket promotion of pollinators ...