Most ornamental crops can be classified as long-day, short-day, or day-neutral plants based on their flowering responses to the photoperiod (which is the day length), or the skotoperiod (which is the night length). Chrysanthemum ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2023
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An international team of researchers led by botanists at the University of Vienna, Austria, has analyzed the morphological diversity of fossilized flowers and compared it with the diversity of living species. They found that ...
Evolution
Nov 30, 2023
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Choosing to be child-free is more common than ever before in some countries, including the US. Many people see not having children an ethical and ecological choice, made to protect the environment, people and other species. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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The domesticated apple (Malus ×domestica) is an economically valuable crop and an important source of nutrients and calories throughout temperate regions of the world. Fruit production is directly influenced by bloom time, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 28, 2023
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Cannabinoids, naturally occurring compounds found in hemp plants, may have evolved to deter pests from chewing on them, according to experiments that showed higher cannabinoid concentrations in hemp leaves led to proportionately ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 15, 2023
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EU researchers are turning to the world's top pollinator in an attempt to reverse biodiversity loss and help fruit growers.
Ecology
Oct 27, 2023
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Research has found that bumblebees make foraging choices to collect the most sugar from flowers in the shortest time—even if that means using more energy in the process—to provide an immediate energy boost for the colony.
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2023
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Have you ever waited in a long queue only to find the ice cream flavor you wanted is gone? What did you choose instead? In the field of behavioral economics, researchers have shown that people make very predictable second ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2023
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Fungi-eating orchids were found for the first time to offer their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in exchange for pollination, which is the first evidence for nursery pollination in orchids. This unique new plant-animal ...
Evolution
Aug 24, 2023
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Many plants and crops rely on insects to pollinate them so they can reproduce. A new study has shown that several flowering plants from the group Euonymus are pollinated by fungus gnats, a dipteran insect. Specifically, they ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2023
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