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Contrasting effects of yeasts and bacteria on floral nectar traits [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2018 Flowers can be highly variable in nectar volume and chemical composition, even within the same plant, but the causes of this variation are not fully understood. One potential cause is nectar-colonizing bacteria and yeasts, but experimental tests isolating their effects on wildflowers are largely lacking.
Vannette, Rachel L, Fukami, Tadashi
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Drought response and urban-pollinator attractiveness of ornamental plant species
Basic and Applied EcologyFaced with pollinator declines, cities could serve as refuges for biodiversity conservation by managing floral resources in public green spaces. Ornamental plants could play an important role in attracting pollinators because they form part of urban ...
Margaux Quinanzoni +2 more
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On the evolution of floral traits : Variation in complex floral phenotypes across pollination environments [PDF]
Pollinators play a central role in shaping the astounding diversity of angiosperm flowers. Flowers are complex, multidimensional, genetically and functionally integrated phenotypes, rendering it a challenge to quantify and interpret observed trait variation.
Hildesheim, Laura Sophie
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Nectar theft and floral ant-repellence : A link between nectar volume and ant-repellent traits?
, 2012 This work was supported by Sir Harold Mitchell Scholarship Fund and University of St Andrews Russell Trust Award. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.As flower ...
Gavin Ballantyne (140036) +9 more
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Testing the Berg hypothesis in the long-lived rosette plant Hesperoyucca whipplei
Botanical SciencesBackground: Variation in floral and vegetative traits and their degree of covariation can provide insights into the roles of abiotic and biotic selective forces acting on different plant modules.
Melissa Álvarez-Mexia +2 more
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BiologyIntra-individual variation in floral traits is linked to plant fitness, playing a central role in sexual selection. This variation can arise from architectural constraints, such as flower position on the inflorescence axis, and from environmental factors.
Guilherme Ramos Demetrio +2 more
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Gladiolus cut flower postharvest performance to direct breeding efforts
Technology in Horticulture, 2023 Gladiolus is an important floricultural and nursery crop used for gardening and floral design. The lengthy, linear stems with large, brightly colored flowers make it a long-term favorite of floral designers.
Neil O. Anderson
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3D Chromatin Architecture Provides Insights Into Leaf Trait Variation Among Pear Species
Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Three‐dimensional (3D) chromatin architecture plays a fundamental role in eukaryotic gene regulations, its functional significance in perennial fruit trees remains poorly characterized despite extensive applications in crop genomics. Here, we developed high‐resolution (∼5 kb) Hi‐C maps of Pyrus and compared 3D genomic architecture of three ...
Yueyuan Liu +11 more
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Predictability of bee community composition after floral removals differs by floral trait group [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2017 Plant–bee visitor communities are complex networks. While studies show that deleting nodes alters network topology, predicting these changes in the field remains difficult. Here, a simple trait-based approach is tested for predicting bee community composition following disturbance.
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Do visual traits honestly signal floral rewards at community level? [PDF]
, 2021 The high variability observed in floral traits has been interpreted as resulting from the adaptation of plants to pollinators, as the latter present innate preferences for specific floral traits and impose selection over them.
Marcial Escudero +9 more
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