Buzz pollination, or floral sonication, represents a distinctive pollination system in which certain bees generate high-frequency vibrations to extract pollen from specialised floral structures. In ...

Pollen of flowering plants can be dispersed by animals, wind or even by water. In assessing pollination modes, a fundamental question is how many flowering plants are pollinated by animals. Although ...

The angiosperms—flowering plants that produce seeds often enclosed within an edible fruit—are among the planet’s most successful life forms. More than 250,000 species of flowering plants have been ...

Evolution takes many forms. Sometimes, species can influence each other’s evolution. This is known as coevolution. Discover how coevolution works, who discovered this phenomenon and examples of it ...