Pollination syndromes in the 21st century: where do we stand and where may we go?

AS Dellinger - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pollination syndromes, recurring suites of floral traits appearing in connection with specific
functional pollinator groups, have served for decades to organise floral diversity under a …

The genomics of coloration provides insights into adaptive evolution

A Orteu, CD Jiggins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Coloration is an easily quantifiable visual trait that has proven to be a highly tractable system
for genetic analysis and for studying adaptive evolution. The application of genomic …

Complex evolution of novel red floral color in Petunia

AE Berardi, K Esfeld, L Jäggi, T Mandel… - The plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Red flower color has arisen multiple times and is generally associated with hummingbird
pollination. The majority of evolutionary transitions to red color proceeded from purple …

The thermal ecology of flowers

CJ van der Kooi, PG Kevan, MH Koski - Annals of Botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Obtaining an optimal flower temperature can be crucial for plant reproduction
because temperature mediates flower growth and development, pollen and ovule viability …

The persistence of polymorphisms across species radiations

GA Jamie, JI Meier - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Studies on polymorphisms have been foundational to our understanding of evolution. The
presence of different phenotypic morphs is sometimes considered a precursor to speciation …

What maintains flower colour variation within populations?

Y Sapir, MK Gallagher, E Senden - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Natural selection acts on phenotypic trait variation. Understanding the mechanisms that
create and maintain trait variation is fundamental to understanding the breadth of diversity …

Major flower pigments originate different colour signals to pollinators

E Narbona, JC del Valle, M Arista, ML Buide… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Flower colour is mainly due to the presence and type of pigments. Pollinator preferences
impose selection on flower colour that ultimately acts on flower pigments. Knowing how …

Phylogenomics reveals convergent evolution of red-violet coloration in land plants and the origins of the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway

BT Piatkowski, K Imwattana, EA Tripp… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
The flavonoids, one of the largest classes of plant secondary metabolites, are found in
lineages that span the land plant phylogeny and play important roles in stress responses …

[HTML][HTML] Many different flowers make a bouquet: lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions

DCJ Wong, E Pichersky, R Peakall - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Flowering plants have evolved extraordinarily diverse metabolites that underpin the floral
visual and olfactory signals enabling plant–pollinator interactions. In some cases, these …

A normalization method that controls for total RNA abundance affects the identification of differentially expressed genes, revealing bias toward morning‐expressed …

K Laosuntisuk, A Vennapusa, IM Somayanda… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
SUMMARY RNA‐Sequencing is widely used to investigate changes in gene expression at
the transcription level in plants. Most plant RNA‐Seq analysis pipelines base the …