You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move.

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction ... plants use insects and other animals ...

Because with a little knowledge and some practice, a single plant can produce thousands more. The topic of plant reproduction ...

These flowers ... use water to its reproductive advantage. This species disperses little pollen "boats" that float around until they hit the stigmas on female flowers of other wild celery plants.

and other flowering plants. But this sort of botanical x-ray can be applied to anything that sprouts. “Any researcher can use it,” says project lead Daisuke Kurihara, a plant cell biologist at ...

Reproduction literally took off. Interaction between insects and flowering plants shaped the development of both groups, a process called coevolution. In time flowers evolved arresting colors ...

Students in biology teacher Amy Jones' Ascension Catholic High class learned about plants and self-pollination by dissecting flowers ... explored as it pertains to reproduction.