A research team has uncovered a surprising new role for DICER-LIKE 1 (DCL1), a key enzyme in microRNA (miRNA) production.

Pollination: How to bringing the buzz back into our countryside, towns and cities Pollination is a crucial and vibrant interaction between plants and animals, one that is also captivating Expand ...

Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ crops Weighing less than a paper clip, they can stay aloft more than 100 times longer than previous designs.

Companion plants play various roles in the vegetable garden community. The cucumber companion plants featured here promote healthier plant development and increased yields by trapping or deterring ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by which ...

S eventy-five percent of crops depend on pollination, but BeeHero CEO Omer Davidi says the bee mortality rate, caused in part by climate change, is alarming. BeeHero’s Pollination Insight ...

If you’re nursing an indoor plant where there aren’t pollinators at all, or you’re just anxious and want to control the pollination process, you can do so via hand pollination.

Pollination by more than one bee species improves cherry harvest Date: September 14, 2023 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: To obtain the biggest cherry harvest, trees should be pollinated ...

New research suggests insects have pollinated flowers since the pollen-bearing blooms first evolved more than 140 million years ago.