Pollen identification and quantification are essential in ecological and evolutionary research to address plant-pollinator relationships, pollination services, and plant reproduction. Research into ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...

In nature, the quest to survive and spread is essential — and that’s certainly true for flowers. We might see them as vibrant harbingers of spring or precursors to juicy tomatoes, but from the ...

A machine vision system capable of locating and identifying apple king flowers within clusters of blossoms on trees in orchards was devised by Penn State researchers—a critical early step in the ...

Drones that blow pollen-laden bubbles onto blossoms could someday help farmers pollinate their crops. Rather than relying on bees and other pollinating insects — which are dwindling worldwide as a ...

As stated in our review of the first volume (vol Ixxiv., 1906, p. 605), Knuth's “Handbook of Flower Pollination” is an encyclopaedic work, and the second volume, which is now before us, dealing as it ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a soap bubble-based pollination method that is as effective as doing it by hand. By Cara Giaimo As wild insect populations decline and commercial honeybee colonies ...