Newswise — Pollination is a crucial step in fruit production, but relying on natural pollinators such as bees is becoming increasingly challenging due to environmental threats like habitat loss and ...

Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, researchers suggest. Rising temperatures have substantially reduced cocoa ...

Most of our food is from angiosperms, while more than 90% of angiosperms require insect pollination - making this pollination method hugely important. Nevertheless, scientists have long been unclear ...

If you want to keep enjoying apples, melons and blueberries, bees need to be healthy and cared for. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature’s most ...

The Israeli agtech company will use its Series A funding to expand deployment of its YAHAV2400 platform, deepen grower ...

The Arava region in Israel is home to a growing area of around 20,000 dunam (5,000 acres) of Medjool dates. Most of the date trees are female, which require pollination using pollen from the male date ...

In strawberry cultivation, pest control and proper pollination management are essential to ensure stable yields and fruit quality.In facility cultivation in particular, pollination using bumblebees is ...

When all else fails for pollination, a yellow flower in the ginger family relies on a substance that botanists say they’ve never seen before: a do-it-yourself oil slick. Caulokaempferia coenobialis ...