Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ways of self-pollination including autogamy and geitonogamy. Selfing flowers ...

These plants can be hand-pollinated by gently shaking them so pollen is dislodged and lands on the pollen-collecting parts of the flower.' These are known as self-pollinating, hermaphroditic plants.

The Independent Multitaskers Monoecious trees such as oak are the multitaskers of the tree world — a single tree bears both ...

Hybrid breeding may lead to a revolution in potato farming, creating new varieties resistant to disease and drought.

COTTON, though included among self-pollinated plants, is subject to crossing, and the extent of natural cross-pollination under favourable conditions is so great that it is regarded by some as ...

“This is the first step in a process that produces seeds, fruits, and the next generation of plants, and it can happen through self-pollination, wind and water pollination, or through the work ...

Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring pollen from the male to the female parts of the same plant. The late spider orchid however is pollinated ...

Around 80% of Earth's flowering plants need animals to pollinate them - but it's not just bees getting the job done. The movement of pollen from one plant to another is how flowering plants are ...

These plants are often self-pollinated, so there’s a better chance their seeds will produce plants similar to the parents. Some vegetables, like eggplants, peppers, brassicas (kale, broccoli ...

In these cases, the bee uses a technique called "buzz pollination" where it bites the flower's anthers and shakes them. "Instead of brushing the pollen straight from the flower, the bumblebee uses ...

In the scorching morning heat Thai Sade brushes the avocado trees he will soon artificially pollinate. Based on a moshav, or collective farm, in central Israel, Mr Sade is the founder of tech firm ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...