Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed the world's smallest wireless flying robot, weighing just ...

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 ...

Colonies could decline by 60-70% due to a dangerous combination of mites, pesticides, habitat loss and hive theft.

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 ...

I have noticed an explosion of flowers this spring like nothing I have seen in many years, and I believe that one of the ...

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

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, ...

Nature is full of mysteries that often leave us in awe, and one such enigma is the ancient relationship between flowers and ...

SEEDS from pods set by natural pollination on a clone which, when self-pollinated, gives 25 per cent albino seedlings 1 have been raised in a nursery and scored for this character. The plot is ...

Longtime Escalon-area almond grower Phillip Brumley says he hasn't been impacted by the pollination problem but has heard ...