There’s something quietly alarming about a garden full of lush, flowering squash and cucumber vines that produces almost no ...
A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...
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 ...
People try all sorts of tricks to achieve a bigger tomato harvest. A dedicated tomato gardener will test different varieties, different pruning techniques, and various fertilizers and watering ...
We know that plants must be pollinated in order to reproduce. However, the method of pollen distribution varies depending on the plant. Each spring, we get a good idea of one method of pollen ...
Hummingbird pollination helped pineapples and other bromeliads evolve into one of the world's most diverse plant families.
This is what we call monoecious plants. The plant has both male and female functions but separated in different flowers. Often, these flowers appear at different times of the year, which doesn't allow ...