Within-species variation in traits such as petal size or colour often provides reliable
information to pollinators about the rewards offered to them by flowers. In spite of potential …

For centuries, scientists have been intrigued by the origin of dioecy in plants, characterizing
sex-specific development, uncovering cytological differences between the sexes, and …

Solanum is one of the world's largest and economically most important plant genera,
including 1245 currently accepted species and several major and minor crops (eg, tomato …

 Abstract The Leptostemonum Clade, or the “spiny solanums”, is the most species-rich
monophyletic clade of the large cosmopolitan genus Solanum (Solanaceae) and represents …

Premise Five to six percent of angiosperm species exhibit a dioecious sexual system, with
unisexual “male” or “female” flowers borne on separate plants. The consequent need for …

 Abstract The genus Lycianthes (Dunal) Hassl.(Solanaceae) has in the past been treated as
a section of the large genus Solanum L., but is more closely related to Capsicum L. The …

 Abstract The genus Lycianthes (Dunal) Hassl.(Solanaceae) has in the past been treated as
a section of the large genus Solanum L. but is more closely related to Capsicum L. Outside …

The staminal column-corolla association in solanums constitutes a floral pattern that is
distinctive, and generalized across a number of genera and families–characterized as …

Solanum section Leptostemonum is an ideal lineage to test the theoretical framework
regarding proposed evolutionary benefits of outcrossing sexual systems in comparison to …

The high occurrence of dioecy on oceanic islands has attracted much attention from plant
evolutionary biologists. Tournefortia argentea (Boraginaceae), an Indo-Pacific strand plant …