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 ...

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.

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

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

This is the first instalment of a new gardening series that examines the secrets of success in plant parenting. Read more at ...

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.

It was heralded as the earliest known angiosperm, or flowering plant, and it is now thought to be roughly 125 million years old. In the following video clips, fossil images, and drawings ...