Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. Kobe ...

While many trees are assisted by pollinators like bees and butterflies, some trees are self-pollinating - this includes ...

Pansies have figured out how as a response to the dire drop in pollinator numbers, but self-pollination produces weaker plants. Plants are having less sex, and it’s our fault. I came to this ...

Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators. There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that ...

When choosing a fruit tree for your yard, one of the most important things to consider is whether the tree is self-pollinating or cross-pollinating. Cross-pollinating trees need a neighboring ...

A species of fungus-eating orchid has an ingenious self-pollinating method. The secret lies in the orchid’s mysterious finger-like appendage. “I knew there had to be more to it than just an ...

"The movement of the stigma appendage represents, to the best of our knowledge, a novel self-pollination mechanism in orchids," the Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji writes in his paper now ...

It showed that the plants have been forced to learn to self-pollinate because the population of insects that should be doing the job has plunged. The plant – its scientific name is Viola ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilise themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as ...