New research backed by Defra hoped to boost insights for growers and breeders into optimal pollination methods ...

Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, researchers suggest. Rising temperatures have substantially reduced cocoa ...

If you want to keep enjoying apples, melons and blueberries, bees need to be healthy and cared for. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature’s most ...

A humanoid robot from China can autonomously pollinate crops, navigating leaves and branches with embodied AI tech now.

Most of our food is from angiosperms, while more than 90% of angiosperms require insect pollination - making this pollination method hugely important. Nevertheless, scientists have long been unclear ...

The Arava region in Israel is home to a growing area of around 20,000 dunam (5,000 acres) of Medjool dates. Most of the date trees are female, which require pollination using pollen from the male date ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...