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 flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In thermogenic plants, female structures mature before male structures to avoid self-fertilization ... in fossil plants that could have trapped pollinating insects also suggests that this feature ...