Hand-pollinating plants is a simple process that guarantees successful fruit development. Many plants need to be pollinated ...

A 2020 study found, for example, that bats were the main pollinators of pitayas (dragon fruit), a major crop in central ...

Spring flowers have co-evolved with insect pollinators for a long time. The flowers require pollen delivery to set seed. To ...

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 ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

Zinnias and tomatoes both love lots of sun and rich soil, but that’s not the only reason to grow these plants together.

The type of fruit a plant produces depends entirely on the genetics of the plant producing the fruit, not where the pollen came from to pollinate the flowers. Although peppers are self-pollinating ...