Sergio E. Ramos
@sergioeramos.bsky.social
Yet, dishonest plants persist in the population. How they are maintained despite strong bee preference for honesty remains a mystery!
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yet, dishonest plants persist in the population. How they are maintained despite strong bee preference for honesty remains a mystery!
🧬 Here, we show that the degree of plant honesty is partly heritable. Since bees favor honest plants, they can drive the evolution of honesty—leading to higher seed production in honest plants.
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🧬 Here, we show that the degree of plant honesty is partly heritable. Since bees favor honest plants, they can drive the evolution of honesty—leading to higher seed production in honest plants.
🌸 An honest plant exhibits a positive correlation between its signal and reward, allowing bees to learn this association and prefer honest plants over dishonest ones.
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🌸 An honest plant exhibits a positive correlation between its signal and reward, allowing bees to learn this association and prefer honest plants over dishonest ones.
🐝 Bees searching for flowers cannot directly see how much nectar (i.e., reward) a flower contains. Instead, they rely on honest floral signals, such as flower size or scent.
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🐝 Bees searching for flowers cannot directly see how much nectar (i.e., reward) a flower contains. Instead, they rely on honest floral signals, such as flower size or scent.
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Is the “honesty” of flowering plants to their pollinators genetic?
Research in New Phytologist indicates that the tendency of flowers to be “honest” and reward pollinators with nectar is partly genetic, meaning that it can be passed down through generatio...
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March 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Congrats! I'm so looking forward to reading this paper 🤩
February 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Congrats! I'm so looking forward to reading this paper 🤩
This is a great initiative. I wonder if it has anything to do with the plant-pollinator interaction networks collected by the collective efforts of lots of people during Covid times. As far as I recall, that was coordinated by @jeffollerton.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is a great initiative. I wonder if it has anything to do with the plant-pollinator interaction networks collected by the collective efforts of lots of people during Covid times. As far as I recall, that was coordinated by @jeffollerton.bsky.social
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Plasticity in plant mating systems
Many plants are extremely plastic in their vegetative and life-history traits, allowing them to deal with a variety of environmental conditions during…
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November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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We show that plant reproduction can be highly plastic at different stages of the process and spatiotemporal scales, affecting plant ecology and evolution, and that in crops 🌾 such plasticity can be beneficial or detrimental.
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
We show that plant reproduction can be highly plastic at different stages of the process and spatiotemporal scales, affecting plant ecology and evolution, and that in crops 🌾 such plasticity can be beneficial or detrimental.
Together with Hanneke Suijkerbuijk and Erik H. Poelman, we have compiled the existing literature and reviewed this important and timely topic.
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Together with Hanneke Suijkerbuijk and Erik H. Poelman, we have compiled the existing literature and reviewed this important and timely topic.
Although we know that plants 🌿 can be highly plastic and adjust to real-time changes in their environment, there has been no discussion about how plastic are plants in their reproduction.
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Although we know that plants 🌿 can be highly plastic and adjust to real-time changes in their environment, there has been no discussion about how plastic are plants in their reproduction.
Plant reproduction is therefore a crucial process that provides us with food and allows plants to continue to exist and adapt to their ever-changing environment.
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Plant reproduction is therefore a crucial process that provides us with food and allows plants to continue to exist and adapt to their ever-changing environment.
A fruit is a fertilized ovary 🍎, seeds like almonds are fertilized ovules (and by the way, almonds need 100% pollination by bees).
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
A fruit is a fertilized ovary 🍎, seeds like almonds are fertilized ovules (and by the way, almonds need 100% pollination by bees).
Is there a similar effort for the evolution/evolutionary biologists community? thanks
November 21, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Is there a similar effort for the evolution/evolutionary biologists community? thanks