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 ...

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 ...

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These methods include producing sweet-smelling fragrances and sugary nectar. While some plants deliver on the promise of ...

Human impacts go beyond fragmentation of habitat to other modifications. We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination ...

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 ...

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 ...

faces significant challenges such as low genetic diversity and limited breeding improvements due to complex domestication and self-pollination. These issues hinder genetic advancements in traits ...

“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 ...

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 ...