Olive reproductive biology is marked by a complex interplay between morphological adaptations and genetic self-incompatibility systems, which collectively mediate the process of wind pollination. The ...

Background and aims The transition from outcrossing to selfing is a repeated pattern in angiosperm diversification and according to general theory this transition should occur quickly and mixed ...

Are plants tricking insects into taking their nectar? In today's Academic Minute, Widener University's Kate Goodrich explores that question. Goodrich is an associate professor of biology at Widener. A ...

Recent research, published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, used the database to reveal that orchids show remarkable diversity of highly specialized pollination strategies that differ ...

Today on the Academic Minute: Kate Goodrich, associate professor of biology at Widener University, examines whether plants are tricking insects into taking their nectar. Learn more about the Academic ...

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) adopted the UN System of Environmental Economic Accounts (SEEA) Framework in 2018, an agreed international framework for the ...

This study was led by Prof. Shuang-Quan Huang, Director of Institute of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University. Prof. Huang has been dedicated to pollination ...

Scientists have created a global database of pollination data for almost 3000 orchid species. Recent research, published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, used the database to reveal ...

Arisaema plants are known to terminally trap their pollinators after pollination. However, in one species, a fungus gnat can not only sometimes escape from the trap, but also lays its eggs into the ...

V. 1. -- Part I Subfamily Cypripedioideae (The Slipper Orchids) -- 2 Cypripedium L. (The Lady's-Slippers), Introduction -- 3 Section Acaulia -- 4 Section Obtusipetala -- 5 Section Cypripedium -- 6 ...