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A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Tomato is one of the highest water-demanding crops, and the use of different irrigation systems and different water management strategies may affect crop yield. Despite the fact that tomato is a ...

Some of nature's most diverse pollinators often go unnoticed, even by scientists: long-snouted beetles called weevils. A new study provides a deep dive into the more than 600 species of weevils, ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 178, No. 3 (2017), pp. 188-210 (23 pages) Pollination initiates a suite of postpollination developmental events in orchid flowers. Ethylene plays a key ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

Wild bees are waking up earlier than usual in the year and this is affecting the pollination of crops like apples and pears, according to a new study. The research found that for every degree Celsius ...

Imagine an Australia without blueberries, avocados or apples. They are among a third of all crops that need bees for pollination. While northern hemisphere honey bees are increasingly threatened by ...

Some of the most loved produce on grocery shelves could be lost. Bees -- whether wild or managed --are integral to the production of the world's food supply. But as populations continue their steep ...