Myth: Adding sugar to the planting hole when planting tomatoes will result in the tomatoes harvested being sweeter. Fact: The ...

To make sure that flying pollinators come to flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract the animals. Scientists have now identified the sugar transporter ...

Why would bees be attracted to spine bases or the tubercles they emerge from? I watched them crawling from old tubercle to old tubercle, stopping at each one briefly as though it was a flower.

Young naive bees make the best pollinators but soon learn to avoid the snap of the keel petals by approaching the flower's nectaries from the side. Plenty of pollen still gets transferred ...

Nectar is the sugar-rich liquid that can also have anti-fungal properties and it's found in glands called nectaries at the base of flowers. The sugars in it are glucose, sucrose, and fructose.

Smilax has the additional resource of extra-floral nectaries, nectar-producing glands physically separate from the flowers. These nectaries may function as an organ for the plant to rid itself of ...

Some eulophids forage effectively only on fully exposed nectaries, i.e., those unobstructed by other floral parts. Therefore, care must be taken to select plants that possess nectary architecture ...