Sharing pollinators can cause problems when pollen competes for transport
Tag - insect-pollination
Alun Salt
Getting out in the sun can lead to better sex
What could make sex better for a plant? When it brings in new genes from other plants. And this is what happens when faba beans get heat stress.
Decoupled variation in floral and vegetative traits
In flowering plants with specialized pollination, a tight fit is expected between floral and pollinator morphologies, and variation in flower size is likely to be maladaptive because pollinators remain of more or less...
AJ Cann
Mixed bird and wasp pollination systems in Scrophularia
It has generally been considered that the flowers of Scrophularia are mainly pollinated by wasps. Ortega-Olivencia et al. study the four species with the largest and most striking flowers in Europe and Macaronesia (S...
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