Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images When choosing a fruit tree for your yard, one of the most important things to consider is whether the tree is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musat / Getty Images Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the ...

For any plant to have offspring, its female egg needs to be fertilized by male pollen. The process by which this is accomplished is pollination — the transfer of pollen from a male stamen to a female ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilise themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as “selfing”, ...

One way to isolate seed-saving plants is to grow them in containers away from other garden plants, such as these four ...

Nonpareil almonds fetch the highest price in California, but the new Yorizane variety are self-pollinating. (Photo: ARS) A new variety of almond that does not rely on bees or an adjacent, different ...

Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...

One day, Yorizane may be synonymous with almonds and California. So what is a Yorizane and what does it have to do with almonds? Yorizane is a new self-pollinating almond variety developed by USDA’s ...

Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...

Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators. There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that ...