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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Floral pigmentation patterns can both mediate plant-pollinator interactions and modify the abiotic environment of reproductive structures. To date, there have been no inquiries into the rate and directionality of macroevolutionary transitions between ...
Matthew H. Koski
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Evolution Letters, 2021 Processes driving the divergence of floral traits may be integral to the extraordinary richness of flowering plants and the assembly of diverse plant communities.
Alexander Skeels +3 more
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Variation in context‐dependent foraging behavior across pollinators
Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Pollinator foraging behavior has direct consequences for plant reproduction and has been implicated in driving floral trait evolution. Exploring the degree to which pollinators exhibit flexibility in foraging behavior will add to a mechanistic ...
Heather M. Briggs +3 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Floral color plays a key role as visual signaling and is therefore of great importance in shaping plant-pollinator interactions. Iris (Iridaceae), a genus comprising over 300 species and named after the Greek goddess of the colorful rainbow, is famous ...
Katarzyna Roguz +7 more
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Convergence without divergence in North American red-flowering Silene
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Combinations of correlated floral traits have arisen repeatedly across angiosperms through convergent evolution in response to pollinator selection to optimize reproduction.
Andrea E. Berardi +6 more
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Biotechnological Advancements for Improving Floral Attributes in Ornamental Plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 Developing new ornamental cultivars with improved floral attributes is a major goal in floriculture. Biotechnological approach together with classical breeding methods has been used to modify floral color, appearance as well as for increasing disease ...
Muhammad Aqeel +7 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Plant specialization and pollination network structure play important roles in community assembly. Floral traits can mediate plant–pollinator interactions and thus have important impacts on nestedness and modularity of pollination network.
Ganju Xiang +7 more
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Horticultural Plant JournalFloral traits largely determine the ornamental value of horticultural plants, while the long juvenile period of woody plants hinders the progress of the floral pattern and color breeding.
Menglong Fan +5 more
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Indirect Selection on Flower Color in Silene littorea
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Flower color, as other floral traits, may suffer conflicting selective pressures mediated by both mutualists and antagonists. The maintenance of intraspecific flower color variability has been usually explained as a result of direct selection by biotic ...
Nancy L. Rodríguez-Castañeda +4 more
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How Much Pigment Should Flowers Have? Flowers With Moderate Pigmentation Have Highest Color Contrast
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Floral pigments are a core component of flower colors, but how much pigment a flower should have to yield a strong visual signal to pollinators is unknown.
Casper J. van der Kooi
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