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Tag: sexual deception

Close Encounters

Sexual deception in Australian orchids

Your chance to catch a highlight of Botany 2020.

by Erin ZimmermanSeptember 21, 2020September 21, 2020
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Insect on a Chiloglottis orchid
Annals of Botany News in Brief

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.

by Alex AssiryJuly 6, 2019July 3, 2019
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Chiloglottis trapeziformis with Neozeleboria cryptoides
Annals of Botany Featured News in Focus

Orchid seeks the most passionate pollinators

It’s not enough to mimic a female – you have to do it well.

by Guest AuthorOctober 2, 2018October 2, 2018
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UV-B and synthesis of chiloglottone floral volatiles
Articles

Sexually deceptive orchids

The Chiloglottis trapeziformis orchid attracts male wasp pollinators using chiloglottones, a newly discovered class of volatile substances.

by AJ CannMay 20, 2015May 20, 2015
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Male fungus gnat (genus Mycomya) showing copulatory behaviour with the labellum of Pterostylis sanguinea. Photograph by R. D. Phillips.
Articles

Botanists uncover the secrets of sexual attraction

by Alun SaltMarch 23, 2015March 16, 2015
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Pollination by sexual deception in Pterostylis
Annals of Botany

Pollination by sexual deception in Pterostylis

A single species of male gnat (Mycetophilidae) visits and pollinates the rewardless flowers of P. sanguinea. The gnats often show probing copulatory behaviour on the labellum, leading to its triggering and the temporary entrapment of the gnat in the flower.

by botanyoneSeptember 1, 2014August 20, 2014
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Chiloglottis orchids
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Do pollinators isolate new species of plants?

by Alun SaltFebruary 14, 2014February 14, 2014
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UV light and floral volatile production in an orchid
Annals of Botany

UV light and floral volatile production in an orchid

by botanyoneJanuary 9, 2013January 9, 2013
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Phylogeny and evolution of European orchids
Annals of Botany

Phylogeny and evolution of European orchids

by botanyoneSeptember 17, 2012August 20, 2012
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  3. 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.

  4. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

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

  5. 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…

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