Baby corn, essentially unfertilized young ears of corn, is a specialty food gaining interest for its high nutrition and low ...

When it comes to reproduction, one type of red algae gets by with a little help from its friends: small sea crustaceans that transport sex cells between male and female algae, like pollen-laden bees ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ...

H. amesianum (Orchidaceae) grows on tree trunks at altitudes of 1,200–2,000 m. We monitored the pollination behaviour of the flowers in forests in Simao, Yunnan, China, where flowering occurs from ...

Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...

An analysis of plant–pollinator interactions reveals that the presence of abundant plant species favours the pollination of rare species. Such asymmetric facilitation might promote the coexistence of ...

Bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds and other nectar-seeking wildlife are often heralded for the vital role they play in pollinating flowering plants on land. Now, there’s a new creature to add to ...

Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial plants appeared. This colorized confocal microscopy image shows the body of an ...