Pictured are female and male flowers occurring simultaneously on the same tree; the male-flower is open but has not yet begun pollen release. In a major breakthrough in avocado breeding, researchers ...

To avoid self-pollination, avocado trees alternate between opening male and female flowers at different times of day. Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others ...

The Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticultural Institute (IHSM) La Mayora of Malaga is investigating how to improve avocado pollination, as despite being one of the trees with the most intense ...

Researchers at The University of Queensland and CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have shown bees can help prove Australia's valuable avocado crop is free of a pathogen that could be a ...

better pollinators than their European cousins. Michael Hogan has 80 hives of the stingless insects on his four-hectare organic orchard at Rous, east of Lismore, reports abc.net.au. "I got into native ...