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Tag: natural selection

Close Encounters

What happens when pollinators bring the wrong pollen?

Surely once insects have brought pollen to a flower, then plant-plant interaction is over? Not so, says Gerardo Arceo-Gómez, who argues that heterospecific (or other plants’) pollen arriving in a flower might affect plant diversity.

by Fi GennuOctober 6, 2021October 6, 2021
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Growth & Development

Regulation of flowering time in Japanese wild radish

How do climatic cues influence flowering time in natural populations of wild radish in northern and southern Japan?

by William SalterAugust 30, 2021August 30, 2021
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Close Encounters Taxonomy & Evolution

Tricky flowers: how floral variation in a food-deceptive orchid is maintained over generations

Sometimes it’s a good idea not to send a consistent message to your pollinators.

by Laura SkatesMay 29, 2020May 28, 2020
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Annals of Botany News in Brief

Evolutionary constraints on disparity of ericaceous pollen grains

by Alex AssiryMay 30, 2019
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Annals of Botany News in Brief

How can sterility make a plant more fertile?

by Fi GennuFebruary 11, 2019February 7, 2019
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Conceptual diagram for sources of nectar variation
Annals of Botany Featured News in Focus

The rewards of chasing nectar

We know that flowers entice pollinators with nectar, but how much and what causes a flower to produce as much or as little nectar as it does. In this guest post, Amy Parachnowitsch, Jessamyn Manson and Nina Sletvold introduce their review of the topic, which you can get free from the Annals of Botany.

by Guest AuthorSeptember 5, 2018October 4, 2018
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Study stands of Pinus halepensis in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula belong to different ecoregions.
Annals of Botany

Frequent wildfires modify genetic structure in Pinus halepensis

by botanyoneJune 1, 2017June 1, 2017
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That which does not kill us makes us more nibbled by beetles.
Articles

Botanists disprove Nietzche

by Alun SaltAugust 14, 2013August 14, 2013
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Image: James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences, volume 1. Cassell and Company, 1916.
Plant Cuttings

2013, International Year of the Wallace(?)

If 2009 ‘belonged’ to Charles Darwin then, if there’s any justice in the world, 2013 has to be ‘owned’ by Alfred Russel Wallace.

by Nigel ChaffeyFebruary 19, 2013February 20, 2013
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Pollinator and herbivore effects on Erysimum
Annals of Botany

Pollinator and herbivore effects on Erysimum

by botanyoneAugust 30, 2011August 23, 2011
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  2. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

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    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  4. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

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