Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...
The overall rate of self-fertilization can be viewed as the sum of two distinct processes: 1) self-pollination of all ovules in a flower (whole-flower self-pollination); and 2) self-pollination of ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Catching insects to ensure pollination is one of the most elaborate and specialized mechanisms of insect–plant interactions. Phylogenetically, ...
Why do some plants produce small and unattractive flowers? Two Montreal researchers think they've figured out why, supporting a hypothesis dating back 150 years to Charles Darwin. People often thing ...
While it's nice to blanket your garden with pollinator-friendly plants, the pollen carriers may still give your place a miss. Not out of chagrin or unfounded enmity, but because it got too cold, or ...
When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...
130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao ...
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