Apple production is fundamentally dependent on the transfer of pollen between flowers, a process traditionally attributed to managed honey bees but increasingly recognised as a multifaceted ...

Pollination ecology examines the interactions between flowering plants and their pollen vectors, encompassing the diversity of floral traits, pollinator behaviours and environmental influences that ...

A small woodlouse-like crustacean seems to help fertilise red seaweed in rock pools, much as a bee pollinates flowers. This suggests that such behaviour is more common in the oceans than we thought, ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ...

Bengaluru, has identified self-fertilisation, or uniparental reproduction, as a critical trait enabling plants to become invasive. Researchers examined 28 species from the daisy family, finding that ...