Key Points Cucumber plants need both male and female flowers for pollination and fruit production.Stress, poor weather, or lack of pollinators can cause flowers to drop and reduce ...

Why do some plants produce small and unattractive flowers? Two Montreal researchers think they've figured out why, supporting a hypothesis dating back 150 years to Charles Darwin. People often thing ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

You can't see it, but different substances in the petals of flowers create a 'bulls-eye' for pollinating insects, according to a scientist whose research sheds light on chemical changes in flowers ...

Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making. Lead author Honorary ...

Most lipstick vines have flowers that are shaped like a tube of lipstick— but not this one. Scientists dug into the plants’ family tree to figure out when and where this oddball evolved. Lipstick ...

Cucumbers are a summertime staple in the garden, enhancing the flavor of salads, sandwiches, and other seasonal dishes. They ...

A study in the journal Plant Biology by researchers from Macquarie University and international collaborators has shown for the first time, that plants reuse resources from wilting flowers to support ...