When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be ...
Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...
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 ...
When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...
We tend to think of plants as passive, vulnerable actors. But in their partnership with insects, it’s plants that often play ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Ah, springtime. The bees are buzzing, the flowers are blooming and people are sneezing. This time of year, insects are usually hard at work pollinating plants and flowers. But the ...
Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making. Lead author Honorary ...