The research details successful trials where nutritionally stressed colonies, deployed for commercial crop pollination in Washington state, thrived on the new food source. Scientists have unveiled a ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

Spring flowers have co-evolved with insect pollinators for a long time. The flowers require pollen delivery to set seed. To ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

A micro drone could change the face of crop pollination Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed the world's smallest wireless flying robot, weighing just 21 milligrams and ...

Many plants, including crops and the beautiful flowers we like to surround ourselves with, rely on pollination for survival. Pollination is not just the work of honeybees. Meet some of the buzzing, ...

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed advanced robotic insects that could aid farming through artificial pollination. They could prove especially useful in ...

I wrote on plunger pollination and other strategies plants employ to achieve out-crossing, which mixes genes of two parent ...

As the warmer weather beckons, thoughts turn to gardening, whether for food, beauty or both. On Thursday evening, pollinator ...

While it is certainly possible for cross-pollination to take place between these plants, it does not affect the type of fruit a plant produces. The type of fruit a plant produces depends entirely ...