The first-place winner of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition captures a self-pollinating flower. Jay McClellan via Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition Nikon has revealed ...

A study on rice pollination using single-cell metabolomics and microscopy reports a discovery such that pollen grains attached show “Roly-poly toy”-like physical motion subsequently after exudation, ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

As autumn steps up a gear, it is not just leaves carpeting the ground this year. You may have spotted a surplus of acorns littering the woodland paths. This year's bumper crop is mainly due to a ...

One of the world’s freakiest floral phenomena starts from a seed the size of sawdust beneath the bark of a woody vine. After months or years (no one really knows), a parasitic bud may emerge, a golf ...

Successful cross-pollination of Monarda fistulosa is the result of a complex interaction among flower opening, the pollen-bearing areas of the pollinators and/or their behavior, and the maturation of ...

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