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Nectar: generation, regulation and ecological functions
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More research is needed to understand how plants produce nectar, the most important mediator of their interactions with mutualistic animals.About:
This article is published in Trends in Plant Science.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 392 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nectar secretion & Nectar.read more
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Nectar bacteria, but not yeast, weaken a plant–pollinator mutualism
TL;DR: It is suggested that it is necessary to understand the determinants of microbial species composition in nectar and their differential modification of floral rewards to explain the mutual benefits that plants and pollinators gain from each other.
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Plant secondary metabolites in nectar: impacts on pollinators and ecological functions
TL;DR: Evidence from recent literature that supports selection for secondary metabolites in floral nectar as an adaptation that drives the co-evolution between plants and their pollinators is synthesised.
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Extrafloral nectar at the plant-insect interface: a spotlight on chemical ecology, phenotypic plasticity, and food webs.
TL;DR: Little is known about the relevance of EFN to the nutrition of its consumers and, hence, to the structuring of arthropod communities, but the mutualism can be established quickly among noncoevolved species, indicating its easy assembly is due to ecological fitting.
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Arranging the bouquet of disease: floral traits and the transmission of plant and animal pathogens.
TL;DR: This work provides the first systematic review regarding how floral traits attract vectors, mediate disease establishment and evolve under complex interactions with plant mutualists that can be vectors for microbial antagonists.
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The microbial ecology of flowers: an emerging frontier in phyllosphere research1
TL;DR: This work reviews the recent literature concerning community composition and diversity in the flower microbiota, the spatial and temporal community dynamics, and the interactions between flower microbes, their plant hosts, and pollinators and concludes with future directions for improving understanding of this emerging frontier in phyllosphere microbial ecology.
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