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 ...

More than one-third of the crops that support the human diet rely on animals for pollination. That means the pollination ...

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, ...

University of Utah scientists discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants named cycads: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad ...

Professor Thomas Marler measures the dimensions of a male cone on a cycad plant in the University of Guam's research plots. Marler has shown how a tiny moth interacts with the cone of this endemic ...

A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change. Two cycads (cycas ...