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Environmental Pollution, 2018
Plants growing in heavy-metal-rich soils can accumulate metals into their nectar. Nectar chemical composition can alter foraging behavior of floral visitors (including pollinators and floral antagonists) and further affect plant reproductive fitness.
Jixun Guo, Jimin Zhao
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Plants growing in heavy-metal-rich soils can accumulate metals into their nectar. Nectar chemical composition can alter foraging behavior of floral visitors (including pollinators and floral antagonists) and further affect plant reproductive fitness.
Jixun Guo, Jimin Zhao
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Floral nectar production: what cost to a plant?
Biological Reviews, 2023ABSTRACTFloral nectar production is central to plant pollination, and hence to human wellbeing. As floral nectar is essentially a solution in water of various sugars, it is likely a valuable plant resource, especially in terms of energy, with plants experiencing costs/trade‐offs associated with its production or absorption and adopting mechanisms to ...
Zong-Xin Ren, Graham Pyke
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Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences, 1986
Nectar composition (sugars and amino acids) of 100 species representing 83 genera from 34 families of angiosperms have been studied. The distribution of the 3 common sugars viz., sucrose, fructose and glucose in nectars of the species studied can be broadly divided into 6 types, based on the presence or absence of any one of the sugars viz sucrose ...
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Nectar composition (sugars and amino acids) of 100 species representing 83 genera from 34 families of angiosperms have been studied. The distribution of the 3 common sugars viz., sucrose, fructose and glucose in nectars of the species studied can be broadly divided into 6 types, based on the presence or absence of any one of the sugars viz sucrose ...
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Nectar resorption and plant reproduction
2023Nectar removal and nectar resorption are processes that can impact a plant's reproductive success, but their overall costs and benefits have not been fully assessed in terms of complete reproductive outputs. This study is the first attempt to compare the nectar production resorption with plant fitness in the same currency of ‘energy’.
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A novel role for proline in plant floral nectars
Naturwissenschaften, 2006Plants offer metabolically rich floral nectar to attract visiting pollinators. The composition of nectar includes not only sugars, but also amino acids. We have examined the amino acid content of the nectar of ornamental tobacco and found that it is extremely rich (2 mM) in proline.
Clay, Carter +4 more
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Effect of Nectar Robbery on Phase Duration, Nectar Volume, and Pollination in a Protandrous Plant
International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2002We examined the effect of nectar robbery on phase duration of a natural population of Impatiens capensis Meerb. (Balsaminaceae), a species with protandrous flowers. We hypothesized that once robbed, a male‐phase flower should switch its sex from male to female because the probability that the flower would receive enough visits to disperse all its ...
Ethan J. Temeles, Irvin L. Pan
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Patterns of plant visitation by nectar-feeding lizards
Oecologia, 1995Geckos in the genus Hoplodactylus visit flowers to feed on nectar. I examined the patterns of flower visitation exhibited by two gecko species (H. maculatus and H. duvauceli) having access to two plant species: pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa: Myrtaceae) and flax (Phormium tenax: Agavaceae).
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Alternatives for planting nectar producing plants
Revista Palmas, 2004La siembra en el borde de los lotes de plantas que presentan sectarios extraflorales se ha convertido en una práctica más en las plantaciones de palma de aceite y está orientada a recuperar la biodiversidad de insectos benéficos. Para la siembra de estas plantas se desarrollaban viveros grandes, cuyos costos alcanzaban los $80 por planta sembrada en el
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