pollination
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Deng conducted an experiment in China applying image recognition to strawberry pollination, work he said could theoretically cut the labor the crop demands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
To illustrate how essential bee pollination is to our food supply, Mr. Hanson deconstructs a Big Mac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"We need many bees for successful pollination," Orr said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Unseasonal or unusually heavy rain or winds can impact pollination, he explains, and then durian trees typically need about a month of hot weather to flower, but cooler temperatures for harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Recall that most wild plants either are regularly cross-pollinated hermaphrodites or consist of separate male and female individuals that inevitably depend on another individual for pollination.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1932 the pollinations were made at Geneva, using a Barcelona tree covered with a tightly woven cloth.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
In 1947 we have made 58 combinations in which 213 branches were bagged; October 10-13 we gathered 380 hybrid nuts resulting from these cross pollinations.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The number of nuts collected at the time of harvesting compared with the number of female flowers pollinated was taken as a measure of how successful the pollinations were.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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