Ongoing research into the effect of environmental change on the buzzing of bees reveals that high temperatures and exposure ...

High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors ...

As a gardener, one of the most rewarding decisions you can make is to incorporate native plants into your landscape. These ...

If you're worried about your precious plants drying out under the high heat follow this one easy expert tip which requires ...

Flowering plants face similar challenges in matching one sperm to one egg, but they handle it quite differently from mammals ...

Because plants are also capable of asexual reproduction, it’s common to use cuttings to develop cultivars that are clones of a dioecious, male flowering plant. This is how fruitless olive and ...

Provide host plants. Plants provide more than just nectar for butterflies; they are essential for their reproduction. Butterflies need host plants to support their entire lifecycle, from egg to adult.

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a plant reproduction biologist at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction, which led to a method for ...

Learn about reproduction in flowering plants with these interactive learning resources for KS2 Science students aged 7-11 from BBC Bitesize.

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. Several genes in regulating flowering time have been ...

Many people think of plants as nice-looking greens. Essential for clean air, yes, but simple organisms. A step change in research is shaking up the way scientists think about plants: they are far ...