«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.»
Not exact matches
I always give the options —
for honey, agave
nectary or maple syrup — when I'm referencing honey in my recipes.
The team used advanced techniques to search
for transporters that could be involved in sugar transport and were present in
nectaries.
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.
With no taste
for nectar, T. penzigi destroys the
nectaries, reducing the appeal of the tree to other species.