Italian bioplastics firm Bio-on srl plans to enter the packaging market through Zeropack, a joint venture that will use bioplastic materials to make packaging for fruits and vegetables. Bologna-based ...

One of the reasons bananas enjoy their rampant popularity is that the kinds you buy in stores are hideously mutated versions of the original, bred to not have the inedible seeds their wild brethren so ...

Durian is a favorite fruit in Asia, nicknamed the king of fruits. Its popularity has generated research interest, with an international team of scientists collaborating to sequence its genome. Funded ...

Fruit flies differ from us in many ways, including the fact that they can't move their eyes relative to the rest of their head. That's not a problem, however, as new research shows that they move ...

During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster, the common household fruit fly. It's become one of the most popular model organisms, but not because scientists ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

Fruit is a key part of a healthy eating plan. Fruits contain many nutrients that your body needs. In fact, a healthy diet that includes fruit has been found to reduce your risk of several chronic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract • Background and Aims In the UK, the flowers of fruit-bearing hedgerow plants provide a succession of pollen and nectar for flower-visiting ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...