The overall rate of self-fertilization can be viewed as the sum of two distinct processes: 1) self-pollination of all ovules in a flower (whole-flower self-pollination); and 2) self-pollination of ...

APPSC FBO Syllabus 2025: The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has announced 691 vacancies for the Forest Beat Officer and Assistant Beat Officer posts in the A.P. Forest Subordinate ...

World Bee Day will be celebrated on May 20. RAJAN SHELKE delves into the world of bees to give a better understanding about bees and to acknowledge their significant role in food security and ...

When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about ...

Scientists found ancient bees and linden flowers fossilized together, showing pollination existed 24 million years ago.

Heterostyly, a floral polymorphism where a species produces two or three distinct flower types with reciprocal arrangements ...

Nikon has revealed the winners of the 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition. The contest recognizes the most dynamic microscopic movies or digital time-lapse photography each year.

An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made ...

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The pollination by bats of the passion flower, Passiflora mucronata, has been studied in southeastern Brazil. Experiments indicate that the ...

Before it becomes the familiar vegetable on dinner plates, okra starts its life as a flower. Zack Snipes, the area ...

Narrator: A flower isn’t just a pretty thing you give to someone special. It’s actually a complicated part of a plant. It produces seeds through a process called pollination. The flower’s stamen ...