Sentences with word «nectaries»

The paper is called: «Hitchhikers at the dinner table: a revisionary study of a group of ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) specializing in the use of extrafloral nectaries for host access.»

The team used advanced techniques to search for transporters that could be involved in sugar transport and were present in nectaries.

Their taste is totally indescribable, with sweet nectary tropical flavors.

Three species, in the genus Crematogaster, feast on nectar that the tree produces for them in specialized organs called nectaries.

«They are sacrificing their nectar and nectaries for the greater goal of maintaining other floral parts that are critical for attacting pollinators, and hence being pollinated.»

I always give the options — for honey, agave nectary or maple syrup — when I'm referencing honey in my recipes.

«SWEETs are key transporters for transporting photosynthates from leaves to seeds and we believe that the nectarial SWEET9 sugar transporter evolved around the time of the formation of the first floral nectaries, and that this process may have been a major step in attracting and rewarding pollinators and thus increasing the genetic diversity of plants,» Frommer said.

To test this, he trained three male nectar - feeding bats (Glossophaga soricina) to search for a feeder 2.5 centimetres wide — roughly the same size as a single nectary — in a chamber filled with artificial foliage.

It has a disc - shaped leaf suspended above a ring of flowers, below which hang cup - shaped nectaries.

There's nothing quite like a taut berry exploding between your teeth, coating your tongue with tangy - sweet nectary explosions.

In addition to describing the new species in the paper, the co-authors Herreid and Heraty, a professor of entomology, found an interesting association between the wasps and extrafloral nectaries, which are nectar - secreting glands found on plants independent of their flowers.

Famously, Charles Darwin predicted that an extraordinary white night - blooming orchid found only in Madagascar — an orchid with a nectary so deep that only an impossibly long implement could penetrate to the pollen within — necessitated the existence of a night - flying pollinator, probably a moth equipped with a nearly foot - longproboscis.

The rainforest vine Marcgravia evenia grows an unusual bowl - shaped leaf above each ring of flowers and nectaries.

But that nectar is secreted at a specific structure called a nectary.

The scientists say this is the first documented instance of nectar that attracts a particular animal assistant being produced outside of a nectary.

In fact, the observed nectar bleeding might actually be an early system that evolved to include the nectaries found in other plants today.

Thus the nectar and nectaries may be acting as a decoy.

«It seems nectar and nectaries, the glands which produce it, attract herbivores that would otherwise feed on other flower parts.

Professor Armbruster said: «The results are clear that floral tissues with a higher reproductive importance are essentially protected through the presence of sacrificial parts, the nectaries and nectar.»

Nearly all (98 per cent) of the flowers studied in natural conditions were damaged by herbivores, but in 85 per cent of the flowers, damage was restricted to just the nectaries, suggesting nectar was being sacrificed to protect more critical parts of the plant.

The researchers saw sawflies «frequently» using the flower as a mating site during which all the nectar and nectaries were eaten, mainly by female sawflies, causing no damage to the stamen and stigma, the reproductively critical parts of the flower.

The adult wasps deposit their eggs close to the extrafloral nectaries so that their larvae, which hatch and migrate to the nectaries, can get collected by the feeding ants into a specialized pouch in the ant head.

SWEET9 transports sugar into extracellular areas of the nectaries where nectar is secreted.

To make sure that flying pollinators such as insects, birds and bats come to the flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract and reward the animals.

Taken together, their work shows that sucrose is manufactured in the nectary and then transported into the extracellular space of nectaries by SWEET9.

With no taste for nectar, T. penzigi destroys the nectaries, reducing the appeal of the tree to other species.

The nectaries are located at the very end of the long corolla tube.