The Basics of Pollination Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a plant’s male parts, the stamens, to the female parts, or pistils, a pairing that creates seeds. “More than 80 percent of ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The ...

But as the air grows thicker with pollution, this harmony that has lasted for millennia is being disrupted. Bees (and even ...

"Honeybees in Ontario provide valuable pollination services to many of the crops we eat. High winter losses, new pests, and ...

Flowering plants have developed a few ways to move their pollen around, and thus protect their genetic diversity. Many grasses are wind-pollinated and, as a backup for their long-shot pollination ...

Although insect pollination is more economical, numerous lineages have reverted back to wind pollination, leaving many biologists to question why that would ever happen given the success of insect ...

Honeybees can well fill the pollination needs of that crop, Gibbs noted, as can several species of bumblebee. Another wild species, the long-horned bee, even has a preference for the oilseed, he said.

Hand pollination increased cocoa fruit yields by 51% to 161%. Even considering the cost of hand-pollination efforts, small-scale farmers had markedly higher incomes from the hands-on approach.

The Mountain Lake PBS Pollination Station is back and blooming in its fifth year on the lawn of 1 Sesame Street—our home base ...

Pollination in the Anthropocene: a Moth Can Learn Ozone-Altered Floral Blends. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2020; DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01211-4 ...

Recent rounds of “million-dollar rains” helped crops in many areas deal with the stress of heat indices in excess of 100 ...

(Pollination photos are by R. L. Nielsen, Purdue University Extension corn specialist.) Check 10 ears to 15 ears in the field to get a sense of how far along pollination is throughout the field.