pollination

"The implication in my mind is that pollinator decline, or the lack of pollination and selective drive to attract pollinators, is making these plants potentially less able to adapt to climatic shifts."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

To illustrate how essential bee pollination is to our food supply, Mr. Hanson deconstructs a Big Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

For Odora and Odorysseus, siblings from a 2002 pollination, a double bloom is unlikely, Tam said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Unseasonal or unusually heavy rain or winds can impact pollination, he explains, and then durian trees typically need about a month of hot weather to flower, but cooler temperatures for harvest.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Recall that most wild plants either are regularly cross-pollinated hermaphrodites or consist of separate male and female individuals that inevitably depend on another individual for pollination.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.

From Time Magazine Archive

To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without going into details, the general purpose of the pollinations during these last two years has been to incorporate more and more of the resistant Chinese stock into our hybrids.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association

If conveniences are at hand the work may be rapidly accomplished—several hundred pollinations being made in a single day by an active worker.

From The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus by Matthew Crawford

In 1932 the pollinations were made at Geneva, using a Barcelona tree covered with a tightly woven cloth.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association