Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

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The dynamics between insects and plants in degraded ecosystems offer unique insights into how anthropogenic pressures and environmental changes alter traditional ecological relationships. In these ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Humidity is as important as scent in attracting pollinators to a plant, new Cornell-led research finds, advancing basic biology and opening new avenues to support agriculture. “The ...

Diffuse coevolution is also known as multi-species or guild coevolution. It occurs when several species collectively influence one another. An example is pollination systems in which plants interact ...

Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing ...

“Plants and insects are the most diverse lineages on earth, but their interactions in the face of climate and other global changes are poorly understood…despite insect declines, insect damage to ...

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Climate change has shifted the flowering times of tropical plants by days to months, potentially disrupting entire ecosystems.

INSECT LAB — Rupesh Kariyat inspects Petri dishes with rice leaves and fall armyworms at his lab on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville campus. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Plant life is a hard life when ...

In a field of winter wheat, researchers at the University of Reading's Sonning farm in the UK had planted an unusual fumigation system: eight 8-meter octagons surrounding clusters of black mustard ...