Scientists studied how the scents of a Solanaceae species vary and how they affect pollinator visitation and found that although floral perfume is an important factor, other signals might affect pollinators visits.
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Renata Cantoro
How does the corpse flower’s scent change over time?
The Titan arum produces a smell like rotting flesh. Now botanists have analysed the chemicals and found that the smell changes over the two days that the plant flowers.
Alun Salt
Drought damages a plant’s perfume
Bees may be using their sense of smell to detect and avoid stressed plants.
For the Pineapple Lily, attraction is a matter of chemistry
Eucomis regia, the pineapple lily, doesn't attract insects or birds to pollinate it. So how does it reproduce?
Do we truly understand pollination syndromes in Petunia as much as we suppose?
Petunia is a genus of flowering plants endemic to South American grasslands. Species of this genus exhibit variation in flower colour and shape, attracting bees, hawkmoths or hummingbirds. This group of plants is thus...
William Salter
Floral volatiles in Ipomopsis hybrids
A study of potential scent mediation of prezygotic and postzygotic reproductive isolation in Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba.
botanyone
Pollinators as selectors for evolution
Following from yesterday, do pollinators act as selectors for evolution? A pollinator shift explains floral divergence in an orchid species complex in South Africa by Peter and Johnson tests this idea. The orchid in...
