Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators. There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary strategies, but ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilise themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as ...

Japanese orchids reproduce by self-fertilization with flowers that never open, challenging evolutionary theories.

"The movement of the stigma appendage represents, to the best of our knowledge, a novel self-pollination mechanism in orchids," the Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji writes in his paper now ...

While many trees are assisted by pollinators like bees and butterflies, some trees are self-pollinating - this includes ...

Many flowering plants can self-pollinate, or transfer pollen between their own blossoms for seed generation and propagation, but most of these plants have relied on pollinators such as butterflies ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The Kobe University research ...

The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly due to a woeful combination of climate change ...

It showed that the plants have been forced to learn to self-pollinate because the population of insects that should be doing the job has plunged. The plant – its scientific name is Viola ...

Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...