Phenotypic Selection on Flower Color and Floral Display Size by Three Bee Species [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Plants exhibit a wide array of floral forms and pollinators can act as agent of selection on floral traits. Two trends have emerged from recent reviews of pollinator-mediated selection in plants.
Johanne Brunet +2 more
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Impact of fragmented habitats on reproductive success in dominant shrubs: natural selection on floral display and pollinator visitation [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceFlowering shrubs in fragmented habitats often experience pollen limitation, which can lead to strong natural selection on floral display and affect reproductive success.
Min Chen +10 more
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Effect of grazing disturbance on floral display, pollen limitation and plant pollination efficiency in the desert steppe [PDF]
BMC Plant Biology, 2022 Background Grazing disturbance usually affects floral display and pollination efficiency in the desert steppe, which may cause pollen limitation in insect-pollinated plants.
Min Chen +5 more
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Floral display and habitat fragmentation: Effects on the reproductive success of the threatened mass‐flowering Conospermum undulatum (Proteaceae) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Fragmentation of natural vegetation is currently one of the largest threats to plant populations and their interactions with pollinators. Plant reproductive susceptibility to habitat fragmentation has been investigated in many species; however, the ...
Nicola Delnevo +3 more
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Floral cost vs. floral display: Insights from the megadiverse Myrtales suggest that energetically expensive floral parts are less phylogenetically constrained [PDF]
American Journal of Botany, 2015 • Premise of the study: Floral display describes the effect of flower size combined with the number of flowers per inflorescence. There is strong evidence that a floral‐display trade‐off operates under energetic constraint, with few‐flowered inflorescences likely to have larger flowers than many‐flowered inflorescences.
Thaïs Vasconcelos +1 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2018 Floral herkogamy, or the spatial separation of reproductive structures, plays an important role in the evolution of plant mating systems. One form of herkogamy is enantiostyly, or the alternate presentation of stigmas to the left and right of the floral ...
Sarah Kelley Richman, D Lawrence Venable
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Effects of shading, fertilization, and irrigation on floral display and honey yield in Agastache rugosa in controlled pot culture [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceSustainable cultivation of Agastache rugosa requires quantitative guidance on how to balance ornamental floral display with nectar-mediated honey production under realistic limitations in light, nutrients, and water.
Ji-Min Park +3 more
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Evolution and developmental genetics of floral display—A review of progress [PDF]
Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2017 AbstractAngiosperms evolved a great diversity of ways to display their flowers for reproductive success by variation in floral color, size, shape, scent, arrangements, and flowering time. The various innovations in floral forms and the aggregation of flowers into different kinds of inflorescences can drive new ecological adaptations, speciation, and ...
Wenheng Zhang, Qiu‐Yun Xiang
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Colors for Resources: Reward-Linked Visual Displays in Orchids [PDF]
PlantsPollination syndromes reflect the convergence of floral traits among plants sharing the same pollinator guild. However, bee-pollinated orchids exhibit striking variation in color and size.
Gabriel Coimbra +4 more
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A mathematical model of kin selection in floral displays [PDF]
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2021 Plants can adjust their competitive traits for acquiring resources in response to the relatedness of their neighbours. Recently, it has been found that plants can alter their investment in traits of attracting pollinators based on kin-interaction. We build a mathematical model to study the optimal floral display to attract pollinators in a patch with ...
Sun, S. +3 more
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