‘Two households, both alike in dignity’ is famously the opening line of Romeo & Juliet. How alike houses Montague and Capulet actually are is debatable, but what is clear is that plants with two households can be...
Tag - Floral display
Liam Elliott
The role of herbivory in the selection of floral traits
Pollinators are often given precedence as the primary drivers behind the evolution of floral traits. Yet a growing body of research is beginning to stress the importance of other significant selective agents...
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Plasticity of key floral traits influences pollinator attraction
Examining the effects of multiple components of pollen deposition (varying according to quantity, source and timing) and pollen removal on key floral traits in Sabatia angularis, Spigler demonstrates the highly...
Why does the architectural arrangement of flowers vary among species?
Angiosperms exhibit great variations within the architectural arrangements of their floral displays, which serve reproductive functions. The influence of display size and of individual floral traits on fitness is well...
Attract them anyway – Benefits of large, showy flowers in a highly autogamous, carnivorous plant species
Despite being a highly autogamous or self-pollinating species, the carnivorous plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Drosophyllaceae) produces large, bright-yellow flowers. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Salces...
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Inflorescences take centre stage
Annals of Botany has a new special issue in Free Access: Inflorescences. It’s a useful reminder to me of another area of Botany I need to read more about. For a start, I think I’ve said elsewhere that...
Alun Salt