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Super excited about my latest paper published in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social

🌸🐝 Plant honesty to their pollinators is partly heritable; bees prefer honest plants and these produce more seeds.

Then why are there dishonest genotypes? 🤔 that's the next question!

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Super excited about my latest paper published in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social

🌸🐝 Plant honesty to their pollinators is partly heritable; bees prefer honest plants and these produce more seeds.

Then why are there dishonest genotypes? 🤔 that's the next question!

Link below
March 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
Effects of anther-stigma position on cross-#pollination efficiency in a # hermaphroditic plant

New #AJB research by Matias Baranzelli, Manuel Ochoa-Sánchez, Sergio Ramos, Fernanda Baena-Díaz, Paula Sosenski, Karina Boege, Cesar Domínguez & Juan Fornoni

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
July 16, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
Yayy 🌱🪲🐝🐌- A list of stellar ecologists and myself showed that (1) species interactions can be summarised at the guild level, except for a few critical species, (2) they occur along a continuum from positive-to-negative, and (3) they have relatively weak strength except between plants!
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community
We explored the patterns of species performance in a real-world community, dependent on pairwise and higher-order interactions with species belonging to the same and other trophic levels (plant, herb....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
Van Valen's Red Queen Hypothesis says that species within ecosystems must constantly change (as in Alice in Wonderland, my drawing) to remain in place. This classic paper was rejected multiple times, and the author created a new journal to publish it mn.uio.no/cees/english...
January 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!
EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Paper alert 📄🚨 Plasticity in Plant Mating Systems
@Trends in Plant Science

Most of the seeds, fruits and vegetables we enjoy are the result of plant reproduction 🌸 🌻 🐝.
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
New paper from our group! We found that maize plants from push-push fields had a higher relative abundance of metabolites toxic to insect herbivores. This suggests that maize plants growing with companion plants are "stronger" than maize plants growing alone.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Push–Pull Intercropping Increases the Antiherbivore Benzoxazinoid Glycoside Content in Maize Leaf Tissue
Push–pull technology refers to a promising mixed cropping practice for sustainable agricultural intensification, which uses properties of intercrop and border crop species to defend a focal crop again...
pubs.acs.org
November 15, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
Hello Science Bluesky! We just moved here from the other page and are looking forward to engaging with everyone here. We are the Spatial Genetics lab at the University of Zurich and work on plant ecological chemistry, genomics, remote sensing, biodiversity and much more! 🍂🌱🪴🌳🛩️🌍🛰️
November 16, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Sergio E. Ramos
2 open PhD positions about unravelling plant-insect communication for sustainable agroecosystems in Switzerland! informationecology.github.io/openpositions/
Open positions
Information Ecology is…
informationecology.github.io
November 11, 2024 at 1:58 PM