It is hard to believe that July is almost over. Corn has been tasseling and the ear leaf is starting to poke its head out. With that in mind, Peter Thomison, OSU Extension corn specialist, provides ...

Contacts for media: Emily Gowdey-Backus, Emily_GowdeyBackus@uml.edu and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass ...

This year’s corn needs rain and needs it soon. The next couple weeks are critical for corn pollination, because silk growth and tassel pollen-shed must be in sync to create corn kernels. That ...

Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...

When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...

This ear of corn illustrates the problem that resulted from heavy fog or rainfall — moisture that came at the wrong time and interrupted the pollination process. Notice the ear tip contains whitish ...

If you're a new gardener and your corn is missing kernels when you harvest it, it's because the ears weren't fully pollinated. Thankfully, you can fix that on your next attempt to grow a crop. You ...

LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass Lowell scientist has simulated the buzz of a bee in a microrobot. UMass Lowell’s Noah Jafferis, assistant professor of ...