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 ...

Nguyen Thi Dan has made lotus tea in Hanoi's Tay Ho District for 70 years. To make a kilo of good lotus tea, she plucks the flowers that are about to blossom and separates the petals, stamen and ...

Pollination, essential to much of life on earth, requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule. In new research, scientists describe the genetic and regulatory factors that ...