Sentences with phrase «plant reproduction when»
Floral fidelity clearly benefits plants, because a pollinator visit will only lead to plant reproduction when the pollinator is carrying pollen from the same plant species.
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«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.
Plants can maximize their chances of reproduction by taking advantage of how insects move between flowers when they track down nectar, a study suggests.
Such assisted reproduction was thought to have arisen about 140 million years ago, when insects began collecting and transferring pollen between flowering plants.
These changes had direct implications for plant reproduction: Larkspurs produced about one - third fewer seeds when one of the bumblebee species was removed, compared to the larkspurs in the control groups.