Background Flower coloration is a key enabler for pollinator attraction. Floral visual signals
comprise several components that are generated by specific anatomical structures and …

Natural selection acts on phenotypic trait variation. Understanding the mechanisms that
create and maintain trait variation is fundamental to understanding the breadth of diversity …

Diverse forms of nanoscale architecture generate structural colour and perform signalling
functions within and between species. Structural colour is the result of the interference of …

The coloration of flowers is due to the wavelength-selective absorption by pigments of light
backscattered by structures inside the petals. We investigated the optical properties of …

Colour produced by wavelength-dependent light scattering is a key component of visual
communication in nature and acts particularly strongly in visual signalling by structurally …

Currently, solar concentrators, whether in solar PV or solar thermal applications are
designed and utilized as a fixed shape such as elliptic, parabolic, V-shape, hyperbolic, and …

Structural colors are recognized as environmentally friendly colors compared with traditional
pigments and dyes. However, their structural substrates are usually made of polymers or …

Living organisms can use minute structures to manipulate the reflection of light and display
colours based on interference. There has been debate in recent literature over whether the …

Plants combine both chemical and structural means to appear colorful. We now have an
extensive understanding of the metabolic pathways used by flowering plants to synthesize …

The flower perianth has various, non‐mutually exclusive functions, such as visual signalling
to pollinators and protecting the reproductive organs from the elements and from florivores …