Pollination articles within Nature Communications

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• Article
  14 August 2023 | Open Access

  Exo84c interacts with VAP27 to regulate exocytotic compartment degradation and stigma senescence

  The exocyst complex is essential for plant development. Here the authors reveal a link between the exocyst complex and the ER network in regulating the degradation of exocytic compartments, stigma senescence and flower receptivity

  • Tong Zhang
  • , Yifan Li
  •  & Pengwei Wang

• Article
  24 May 2019 | Open Access

  A pistil-expressed pectin methylesterase confers cross-incompatibility between strains of Zea mays

  Domesticated maize and some varieties of wild teosinte grow in close proximity in parts of Mexico but rarely cross-fertilize. Here the authors show that a pistil-expressed pectin methylesterase, encoded by a gene within the Teosinte crossing barrier1-s haplotype, prevents fertilization of these teosintes by incompatible pollen.

  • Yongxian Lu
  • , Samuel A. Hokin
  •  & Mathew M. S. Evans

• Article
  14 March 2017 | Open Access

  Real-time divergent evolution in plants driven by pollinators

  Pollinators are thought to be a driver of plant diversification, but their effects are difficult to disentangle from those of other biotic and abiotic factors. Here, the authors let plants evolve under different pollination regimes and show rapid and divergent evolution of plant height, floral traits and mating system.

  • Daniel D. L. Gervasi
  •  & Florian P Schiestl

• Article
  29 September 2016 | Open Access

  Experimental evidence of pollination in marine flowers by invertebrate fauna

  Marine plants reproduce by hydrophilly, that is, the movement of pollen by water. Here, the authors show that invertebrates can also carry pollen from male to female Thalassia testudinum plants.

  • Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek
  • , Nora Villamil
  •  & Vivianne Solis-Weiss

• Article
  16 June 2015 | Open Access

  Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

  One argument for conserving biological diversity is that it delivers beneficial ecosystem services. However, Kleijn et al.show that the economic benefits of crop pollination are delivered by only a small subset of relatively common species, arguing that threatened species should be considered separately.

  • David Kleijn
  • , Rachael Winfree
  •  & Simon G Potts

• Article | 10 March 2015

  Bird–flower visitation networks in the Galápagos unveil a widespread interaction release

  Vertebrate species on islands may display broader feeding niches than their mainland counterparts in response to poorer diets. Here, Traveset et al. show that almost all Galápagos land birds exploit floral resources across the archipelago in an extensive generalized network.

  • Anna Traveset
  • , Jens M. Olesen
  •  & Ruben Heleno