2024-03-04
Next Time You Eat a Kiwifruit, Don’t Thank a Bee
The kiwifruit, a native of China that is now cultivated worldwide, depends on efficient pollination to reach a marketable size. In fact, fruit size has a straight-line relationship to grains of pollen. Until now, however, no studies have looked at what type of pollination—insect, wind, or artificial—does the job best.