In nature, the quest to survive and spread is essential — and that’s certainly true for flowers. We might see them as vibrant harbingers of spring or precursors to juicy tomatoes, but from the ...

Many crops, such as blueberries and strawberries, bear fruit through the activity of pollinating insects, including honeybees ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...

If you are growing cucumber plants that are flowering but not producing any fruit, the issue may be pollination — or a lack thereof. In most gardens, bees and other insects pollinate plants naturally.