Tag: Pollination
Aconitum offers bees more nectar to carry its toxic pollen
Male flowers of Aconitum protect their pollen by adding alkaloids. Without pollen as a reward, botanists asked how the flower compensated pollinators.
Genes involved in the biosynthesis of Chiloglottis semiochemicals
Selection on duplicated plant volatile genes is thought to have enabled the evolution of floral volatiles crucial to plant-insect interactions.
Thermal Ecology to become a hot topic
Floral colour structure in two Australian herbaceous communities
Little dragons with a sweet tooth pollinate the mysterious “Hidden Flower”
High up in the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site in South Africa, and unexpected visitor is changing ideas of what animals can be pollinators.
Sex on Fire and Vachellia caven
In Central Argentina grows a tree which can produce flowers with different sexual characteristics? Why? Is there an advantage to changing your sex life if you’re a plant?
A change in pollinator alone does not explain speciation
How can sterility make a plant more fertile?
Functional significance and optical properties of floral visual signals
Detecting canalization and intra-floral modularity in triggerplant (Stylidium) flowers
Floral mimicry of Faboideae in an Australian orchid
Male reproductive success and floral trait evolution in animal-pollinated plants
Orchid seeks the most passionate pollinators
It’s not enough to mimic a female – you have to do it well.