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Do pollinators isolate new species of plants?
It’s time for the last paper of the pollinator-driven speciation week. The previous posts have examined how pollinators can select and cause diversity among
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Plants adapt to accommodate a long proboscis in South Africa.
Our Grant-Stebbins week continues. Today it’s a question of looking at the geographical context of floral adaptations. Why might you find a plant here
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Floral adaptation to pollinator guilds in Switzerland
Pollinator-driven speciation week continues, with Floral adaptation to local pollinator guilds in a terrestrial orchid, a paper by Sun, Gross and Schiestl. The star is
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Pollinators as selectors for evolution
Following from yesterday, do pollinators act as selectors for evolution? A pollinator shift explains floral divergence in an orchid species complex in South Africa by Peter
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Effects of water availability and pest pressures on tea (Camellia sinensis) growth and functional quality
Extreme shifts in water availability linked to global climate change are impacting crops worldwide. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Ahmed et al. examine
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Can the Grant-Stebbins model explain where all the flowers come from?
Valentine’s Day is coming, and many people are looking for the right flower to express their feelings, though it’s hard to beat a multi-
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Central–marginal diversity in a Mediterranean endemic
A study of Arenaria provincialis’s (Caryophyllaceae) geographic range finds that despite its narrow distribution it has a high level of molecular variation.
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Genetic variation among mainland and island populations of a native perennial grass used in restoration
Knowledge of species-level patterns of genetic diversity can inform and improve protocols when population reintroduction is a restoration objective. In a new study in AoB
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Plant science and the gluten-free diet
How do you make gluten-free bread? From gluten-free wheat, obviously.
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More bad news for bees, now plant viruses are after them
Colony Collapse Disorder is bad news, even if you hate honey as much as I do. Disappear honey bees doesn’t just mean less honey, they
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Are tomatoes naturally unnatural?
The news GM Tomatoes are being grown in Canada broke on the BBC late last week. They also opened a comment section which, like comments sections
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Wise men (and women) in the January Annals of Botany
A reminder that a year after publication, Annals of Botany papers become free access. You can read about Boswellia tapping in Tolera et al’s paper, or you can see the issue’s contents page for somewhat more than just three wise men and women.