More than one-third of the crops that support the human diet rely on animals for pollination. That means the pollination ...
The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...
Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments. The work, published in the journal Science, ...
The cycads are an unusual group of gymnosperms in that they are pollinated by insects rather than by wind. In a study of the Mexican cycad, Zamia furfuracea, pollination was found to be dependent on a ...
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New research shows cycads warm cones to attract beetles that sense infrared radiation, revealing one of Earth’s oldest ...
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