Variation in Extrafloral Nectary Productivity Influences the Ant Foraging. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Extrafloral nectar is the main food source offered by plants to predatory ants in most land environments. Although many studies have demonstrated the importance of extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) to plant defense against herbivores, the influence of EFNs ...
Denise Lange +2 more
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Genetic and evolution analysis of extrafloral nectary in cotton [PDF]
Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2020 SummaryExtrafloral nectaries are a defence trait that plays important roles in plant–animal interactions. Gossypium species are characterized by cellular grooves in leaf midribs that secret large amounts of nectar. Here, with a panel of 215 G. arboreum accessions, we compared extrafloral nectaries to nectariless accessions to identify a region of Chr12
Yuying Jin, Fuguang Li, Zhaoen Yang
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Extrafloral Nectary-Bearing Plants Recover Ant Association Benefits Faster and More Effectively after Frost-Fire Events Than Frost [PDF]
Plants, 2023 The Cerrado confronts threats such as fire and frost due to natural or human-induced factors. These disturbances trigger attribute changes that impact biodiversity.
Gabriela Fraga Porto +2 more
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Diversity of Leaf Glands and Their Putative Functions in Rhamnaceae Species [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Leaf glands are found in many Rhamnaceae species, the buckthorn family, and are frequently used in taxonomic studies of the group, especially because they are easily visible to the naked eye.
Lucas Iwamoto +4 more
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Extrafloral nectary-bearing plant Mallotus japonicus uses different types of extrafloral nectaries to establish effective defense by ants. [PDF]
J Plant Res, 2019 Extrafloral nectary (EFN)-bearing plants attract ants to gain protection against herbivores. Some EFN-bearing plants possess different types of EFNs, which might have different effects on ants on the plants. Mallotus japonicus (Thunb.) Muell. Arg. (Euphorbiaceae) bears two types of EFNs, including a pair of large EFNs at the leaf base and many small ...
Yamawo A, Suzuki N, Tagawa J.
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Mechanical defenses of plant extrafloral nectaries against herbivory [PDF]
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2016 Extrafloral nectaries play an important role in plant defense against herbivores by providing nectar rewards that attract ants and other carnivorous insects.
Moshe Gish +2 more
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Geographic mosaic of plant evolution: extrafloral nectary variation mediated by ant and herbivore assemblages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Herbivory is an ecological process that is known to generate different patterns of selection on defensive plant traits across populations. Studies on this topic could greatly benefit from the general framework of the Geographic Mosaic Theory of ...
Anselmo Nogueira +4 more
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Two new species of Columnea (Gesneriaceae) from the Colombian Andes [PDF]
PhytoKeysTwo new species of Columnea are described based on recent field expeditions and herbarium research. These species are unusual within Columnea for exhibiting a dorsiventral epiphytic habit typical of many northern Andean species, but they lack conspicuous
John L. Clark +4 more
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Extrafloral nectary–the sleeping beauty of plant science [PDF]
Journal of Cotton Research, 2020 Cotton is one of the most important cash crops, its growth season coincides with a high incidence of diverse groups of pests, leading to heavy use of pesticides.
Xiaoya CHEN
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Insights on the systematics and morphology of Humiriaceae (Malpighiales): androecial and extrafloral nectary variation, two new combinations, and a new Sacoglottis from Guyana [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2019 Humiriaceae have had little recent comparative morphological study except for their distinctive fruits. We surveyed the diversity of stamen structures in the family with consideration of dehiscence patterns and the evolutionary transitions ...
Kenneth J. Wurdack, Charles E. Zartman
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