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 ...

"I keep getting the stamen and pistil mixed up..."Have you ever been troubled by your child saying that while doing their 5th ...

The Day I Stopped Trying to Please EveryoneThere is a term called pollination syndrome. It refers to the phenomenon where, as ...

Plants existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers bloomed. But when flowering plants did evolve, more than 140 million years ago, they were a huge evolutionary success ...

An international study led by researchers from Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Biology Centre of the Czech ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Pollinating tomatoes by hand can ensure that more fruit develops. Though tomatoes self-pollinate, indoor or sheltered plants may require hand-pollination for fruit production. Hand-pollinate when ...

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 ...

Sun-ripened tomatoes are the result of thousands of pollen grains moving at just the right time to pollinate flowers. All types of tomatoes—from beefsteaks that are larger than your hand to bite-size ...