Newly formed tetraploid plants in sympatry with their diploid progenitors should face significant obstacles to persistence and population establishment because of low-fitness triploids formed by cross ...

Human disturbance negatively affects the pollination and seed dispersal of forest trees – an effect that can be observed in both tropical and temperate forests. This is the key result of a synthesis ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Society has recently become enthralled with bees and the amazing service they provide spreading pollen around and helping to sustain plant ...

I discussed some basics of plant pollination and fertilization last week in this column. This week, let's look at some of the problems and anomalies of these processes. Every summer, questions about ...

Pollination is an important part of a plant's life cycle Each part of a plant has an important job to do, from the roots to the shoots, to the leaves and even the flower. Flowers aren’t just the part ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Could Ebola have come from bats? So how do you monitor huge bat populations to get a ...

Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...

Gmelina arborea is a dry season bloomer. It produces large, brownish-yellow, bisexual and zygomorphic nectariferous flowers. The breeding system involves both self- and cross-pollination, but most of ...

Hundreds of Indian flying foxes (Pteropus medius formerly Pteropus giganteus), large fruit-eating bats, dropped dead in droves in the northern states of India due to intense heatwaves. In Rajasthan, ...