Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

Some flowers are giving up on attracting pollinating insects and opting for a more self-reliant strategy: self-pollination. This evolutionary phenomenon is a response to the dwindling numbers of ...

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 ...

"The simplest way to pollinate many plants is to shake the foliage gently to distribute the pollen," says Grace Baroun, marketing executive at Soltech. "This works especially well with self ...

In contrast, some hermaphroditic plant species are self-compatible and also capable of self-pollination, so they can make seeds whether or not their flowers are visited by pollinators. The ...

They are particularly suited for self-pollinating crops such as strawberries and tomatoes, said Jadhav, who is founder and chief executive of Singapore-based tech firm Polybee, which uses off-the ...

But, I've got what I've got. You know, Tom, is that you don't need, they can self pollinate. And so you do get bigger fruit. However, if they can, if there's another, you know, cultivar that they ...

Even though most varieties self-pollinate, planting two different varieties will increase pollination and berry size. Blueberries basically fall into two categories: highbush or lowbush.

An organic seed company was distressed to learn it had marketed a GMO purple tomato by mistake. The incident raised alarm ...

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 ...

Growing up as a homeschooler, I remember lessons changing course very quickly based on the interests my siblings and I expressed to our mother (our primary teacher). […] ...

Michigan has 465 species of bees, which sounds like a lot. But a diverse group is needed for 90% of flowering plants and that ...