Trapping pollinators with hot and smelly flowers: different strategies for different insects!
New study finds that scent is more pollinator-specific than heating up the flower-like parts
Tag: Araceae
Pitfalls between fungus gnats and plant pitchers
Aroid aerial roots answer new pressures with new morphology
Specialization for water retention came from a layer of cork on the roots’ exterior.
Unveiling the osmophores of Philodendron (Araceae)
A global assessment of a large monocot family highlights the need for group-specific analyses of invasiveness
Combining FISH and chromosome modelling in Typhonium
Sousa et al. combine cytogenetics, using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), and modelling of changing chromosome numbers in a maximum-likelihood framework to study Typhonium, a genus of Araceae with 2n = 24 and 2n = 8, the lowest known count in the family.
