Pollination by brood-site deception

I Urru, MC Stensmyr, BS Hansson - Phytochemistry, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Pollination is often regarded as a mutualistic relationship between flowering plants and
insects. In such a relationship, both partners gain a fitness benefit as a result of their …

The evolution of floral biology in basal angiosperms

PK Endress - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In basal angiosperms (including ANITA grade, magnoliids, Choranthaceae,
Ceratophyllaceae) almost all bisexual flowers are dichogamous (with male and female …

Single-copy nuclear genes place haustorial Hydnoraceae within Piperales and reveal a Cretaceous origin of multiple parasitic angiosperm lineages

J Naumann, K Salomo, JP Der, EK Wafula, JF Bolin… - PLoS …, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Extreme haustorial parasites have long captured the interest of naturalists and scientists with
their greatly reduced and highly specialized morphology. Along with the reduction or loss of …

Patterns and processes in nocturnal and crepuscular pollination services

RM Borges, H Somanathan… - The Quarterly review of …, 2016‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Night, dawn, and dusk have abiotic features that differ from the day. Illumination, wind
speeds, turbulence, and temperatures are lower while humidity may be higher at night …

Rethinking convergence in plant parasitism through the lens of molecular and population genetic processes

L Cai - American Journal of Botany, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The autotrophic lifestyle of photosynthetic plants has profoundly shaped their body plan,
physiology, and gene repertoire. Shifts to parasitism and heterotrophy have evolved at least …

Detecting and Characterizing the Highly Divergent Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plant Hydnora visseri (Hydnoraceae)

J Naumann, JP Der, EK Wafula… - Genome Biology and …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Plastid genomes of photosynthetic flowering plants are usually highly conserved in both
structure and gene content. However, the plastomes of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic …

Chemical and morphological filters in a specialized floral mimicry system

F Martos, ML Cariou, T Pailler, J Fournel… - New …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many plant species attract insect pollinators through chemical mimicry of their oviposition
sites, often detaining them in a trap chamber that ensures pollen transfer. These plant …

Structure and biomechanics of trap** flower trichomes and their role in the pollination biology of Aristolochia plants (Aristolochiaceae)

B Oelschlägel, S Gorb, S Wanke, C Neinhuis - New Phytologist, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Catching insects to ensure pollination is one of the most elaborate and specialized
mechanisms of insect–plant interactions. Phylogenetically, Aristolochiaceae represent the …

Discordant phylogenomic placement of Hydnoraceae and Lactoridaceae within Piperales using data from all three genomes

M Jost, MS Samain, I Marques, SW Graham… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Phylogenetic relationships within the magnoliid order Piperales have been studied
extensively, yet the relationships of the monotypic family Lactoridaceae and the …

Scent glands in legume flowers

CR Marinho, CD Souza, TC Barros, SP Teixeira - Plant Biology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Scent glands, or osmophores, are predominantly floral secretory structures that secrete
volatile substances during anthesis, and therefore act in interactions with pollinators. The …