Pollen as the link between floral phenotype and fitness

ØH Opedal, R Pérez‐Barrales, VLG Brito… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pollen plays a key role in plant reproductive biology. Despite the long history of research on
pollen and pollination, recent advances in pollen‐tracking methods and statistical …

A safe agricultural space for biodiversity

D García-Vega, P Dumas, R Prudhomme… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Agriculture is the main driver of the rapid collapse of biodiversity, upon which all life on
Earth, including agricultural production, depends. As we face the challenge of feeding a …

Is the Artificial Pollination of Walnut Trees with Drones Able to Minimize the Presence of Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis? A Review

I Manthos, T Sotiropoulos, I Vagelas - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Walnut (Juglans regia L.) is a monoecious species and although it exhibits self-compatibility,
it presents incomplete overlap of pollen shed and female receptivity. Thus, cross-pollination …

Bumblebees mediate landscape effects on a forest herb's population genetic structure in European agricultural landscapes

JT Feigs, S Huang, SIJ Holzhauer, J Brunet… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially isolated plant populations in agricultural landscapes exhibit genetic responses not
only to habitat fragmentation per se but also to the composition of the landscape matrix …

Bee movement between natural fragments is rare despite differences in species, patch, and matrix variables

AN Harmon-Threatt, NL Anderson - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context Persistence of organisms in fragmented landscapes often depends on the ability of
individuals to move between habitat patches. This movement can be limited by variables of …

Dominance of non-wetland-dependent pollinators in a plant community in a small natural wetland in Shimane, Japan

T Watazu, MK Hiraiwa, M Inoue, H Mishima… - Journal of Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Many wetland plants rely on insects for pollination. However, studies examining pollinator
communities in wetlands remain limited. Some studies conducted in large wetlands (> 10 …

Maintaining separate maternal lines increases the value and applications of seed collections

MM van der Merwe, JG Bragg, R Dimon… - Australian Journal of …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Given the effort and resources that go into collecting and maintaining seed
collections, it is crucial that we maximise their usefulness. Conservation, restoration and …

Canopy cover has divergent effects on movement of closely related bumble bees in managed conifer forest landscapes

RA Zitomer, NS Pope, CW Epps, RS Crowhurst… - Landscape …, 2025 - Springer
Objectives We aimed to quantify the effects of forest canopy cover and roads on foraging
movement of two closely related bumble bee species (Bombus vosnesenskii and Bombus …

Assessing the links between pollinators and the genetic and epigenetic features of plant species with contrasting distribution ranges

J Valverde, M Medrano, CM Herrera, C Alonso - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In flowering plants, pollinators contribute to gene flow while they also respond to variation in
plant traits together determined by genetic, epigenetic and environmental sources of …

Limited effects of population age on the genetic structure of spatially isolated forest herb populations in temperate Europe

S Huang, JT Feigs, SIJ Holzhauer, K Kramp… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to multiple land‐cover changes, forest herb populations residing in forest patches
embedded in agricultural landscapes display different ages and, thus, experience …