Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one flower to another, where fertilization takes place. Below ...

The hardy fuchsia is adapted for hummingbird pollination in a variety of ways ... the stigmas on female flowers of other wild celery plants. (The stigma is the sticky section of a flower that ...

Does self-fertilization cause populations to go extinct ... Evolution of intermediate selfing rates in plants: Pollination ecology versus deleterious mutations. Genetica 102/103: 267-278 (special ...