While this doesn't include major food crops like rice and wheat, pollination is essential to what the study's first author – ecologist Katherine Turo from Rutgers University in the US – refers ...

Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, ...

Pollination is, however ... nuts and many vegetable crops will be substituted increasingly by staple crops like rice, corn and potatoes, eventually resulting in an imbalanced diet.

self pollination - pollen from an anther of the same flower or same plant arrives at the stigma of the flower. Examples of self-pollinating plants include wheat, barley, rice, tomatoes and potatoes.