New study finds that scent is more pollinator-specific than heating up the flower-like parts
Tag - Araceae
Juniper Kiss
Pitfalls between fungus gnats and plant pitchers
Fungus gnats might not be a glamorous group of insects but they are important pollinators, especially attracted to plants with dark red flowers. Not much is known about their pollination behaviour and plant species...
Aroid aerial roots answer new pressures with new morphology
Specialization for water retention came from a layer of cork on the roots’ exterior.
Erin Zimmerman
Unveiling the osmophores of Philodendron (Araceae)
Philodendron, a species-rich genus of the arum family (Araceae), is thermogenic and produces strong inflorescence scents for pollinator attraction. However, the precise location of the scent-emitting tissue and its...
botanyone
A global assessment of a large monocot family highlights the need for group-specific analyses of invasiveness
There are several emerging generalizations in invasion biology, but often the factors determining invasiveness are group-specific. Similarly to certain other plant families, Araceae species (arums or aroids) that have...
AoBPLANTS
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...
Maximum likelihood inference of chromosome numbers
Botanists interested in changes in chromosome number have often relied on inferring a basic number, x, but this has been done without consistent (reproducible) reference to species’ relationships and frequencies of...
