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A new humanoid robot designed to support crop breeding has been unveiled in Beijing, ...

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 ...

Pollinators -- such as bees, butterflies and birds -- are essential for agricultural production. However, natural pollination can also fail or be insufficient, which can lead to lower yields and ...

As stated in our review of the first volume (vol Ixxiv., 1906, p. 605), Knuth's “Handbook of Flower Pollination” is an encyclopaedic work, and the second volume, which is now before us, dealing as it ...

A delicate golden granule buffeted by wind or deposited via insects is the precursor to any crop. For some crops, like corn, optimal pollination depends on the right timing, wind, and favorable ...