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Touch-sensitive stamens enhance pollen dispersal by scaring away visitors

Animal-pollinated plants have to get pollen to a conspecific stigma while protecting it from getting eaten. Touch-sensitive stamens, which are found in hundreds of flowering plants, are thought to function in enhancing pollen export and reducing its loss, but experimental tests are scarce. Stamens o...

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Autores principales: Li, Deng-Fei, Han, Wen-Long, Renner, Susanne S, Huang, Shuang-Quan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36217820
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81449