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Inoculation of pear flowers with Metschnikowia reukaufii and Acinetobacter nectaris enhances attraction of honeybees and hoverflies, but does not increase fruit and seed set.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Currently, one of the most important challenges is to provide sufficient and affordable food and energy for a fast-growing world population, alongside preserving natural habitats and maintaining biodiversity.
Agneta Colda, Sofie Bossaert, Christel Verreth, Bart Vanhoutte, Olivier Honnay, Wannes Keulemans, Bart Lievens   +6 more
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Pollination by long-proboscid horseflies and its implications for reproductive isolation among coflowering Satyrium orchids in South Africa. [PDF]

Am J Bot
Abstract Premise Floral adaptations to pollinators can drive lineage diversification and promote coexistence of species. We investigated the reproductive biology of Satyrium longicolle, a South African orchid that we hypothesized to belong to a long‐proboscid horsefly pollination guild and examined overlap of pollinators and floral traits among ...
Johnson SD, Moir M, Newman E, Van der Niet T.   +3 more
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Biochemical Traits in the Flower Lifetime of a Mexican Mistletoe Parasitizing Mesquite Biomass

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Psittacanthus calyculatus is a hemiparasitic plant that infects a wide range of trees. Mainly the biology reproduction of this mistletoe lies in bright colored flower development.
Elizabeth Quintana-Rodríguez, Elizabeth Quintana-Rodríguez, Alan Gamaliel Ramírez-Rodríguez, Enrique Ramírez-Chávez, Jorge Molina-Torres, Xicotencatl Camacho-Coronel, José Esparza-Claudio, Martin Heil, Domancar Orona-Tamayo, Domancar Orona-Tamayo   +9 more
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Honey-Based Medicinal Formulations: A Critical Review

Applied Sciences, 2021
Honey, a concentrated natural product, is produced by honeybees (Apis mellifera) from the nectar of flowers. It contains over 200 compounds that exert various biological or pharmacological activities, ranging from antioxidant, anti-inflammatory ...
Md Lokman Hossain, Lee Yong Lim, Katherine Hammer, Dhanushka Hettiarachchi, Cornelia Locher   +4 more
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Sugar and Polyphenolic Diversity in Floral Nectar of Cherry [PDF]

, 2020
Cherries (Prunus avium L. and Prunus cerasus L.) are economically important fruit species in the temperate region. Both are entomophilous fruit species, thus need pollinators to give high yields.
Fotirić-Akšić, Milica M., Meland, Mekjell, Ramawat, Kishan Gopal, Natić, Maja, Čolić, Slavica D., Mérillon, Jean-Michel   +5 more
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Metabolomic Profiling of the Nectars of Aquilegia pubescens and A. Canadensis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
To date, variation in nectar chemistry of flowering plants has not been studied in detail. Such variation exerts considerable influence on pollinator-plant interactions, as well as on flower traits that play important roles in the selection of a plant ...
Christos Noutsos, Ann M Perera, Basil J Nikolau, Samuel M D Seaver, Doreen H Ware   +4 more
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The Chemical Composition of Scaptotrigona mexicana Honey and Propolis Collected in Two Locations: Similarities and Differences

Foods, 2023
The chemical composition of stingless bee honey and propolis depends on the plant sources they are derived from, and thus reflects the flora available in the vicinity of the hives, the preferences of the bee species, and the climate (altitude and ...
Dessislava Gerginova, Milena Popova, Ralitsa Chimshirova, Boryana Trusheva, Maggie Shanahan, Miguel Guzmán, Erik Solorzano-Gordillo, Estefhanía López-Roblero, Marla Spivak, Svetlana Simova, Vassya Bankova   +10 more
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Elevated Temperature May Affect Nectar Microbes, Nectar Sugars, and Bumble Bee Foraging Preference [PDF]

, 2022
Floral nectar, an important resource for pollinators, is inhabited by microbes such as yeasts and bacteria, which have been shown to influence pollinator preference. Dynamic and complex plant-pollinator-microbe interactions are likely to be affected by a
Russell, Kaleigh A., Russell, Kaleigh, McFrederick, Quinn, McFrederick, Quinn S.   +3 more
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Diversity and distribution of microbial communities in floral nectar of two night-blooming plants of the Sonoran Desert.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Nectar-inhabiting microbes are increasingly appreciated as important components of plant-pollinator interactions. We quantified the incidence, abundance, diversity, and composition of bacterial and fungal communities in floral nectar of two night ...
Martin von Arx, Autumn Moore, Goggy Davidowitz, A Elizabeth Arnold   +3 more
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Changes in south-Swedish vegetation composition over the last 200 years as described by species-specific indicator and trait values and documented by museum and literature records

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Vascular plant observances were compiled for 10 well-documented parishes in Scania, southernmost Sweden, from published floras, herbarium specimens, modern inventories, and a large citizen-science database to provide decade-level presence/absence data of
Cassandra Hallman, Ola Olsson, Torbjörn Tyler   +2 more
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