Researchers Violeta Simón, Marcial Escudero and Juan Arroyo, from the Department of Botany at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Seville, led a study in which, in collaboration with ...

Plants, just like animals, have to compete to survive in nature when multiple flowering species share the same pollinators. In turn, this can lead to a condition called “reproductive interference” ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Darwin proposed that the reciprocal arrangement of anthers and stigmas in heterostylous plants promotes cross-pollination through pollen segregation on pollinators’ bodies. The ...

An analysis of plant–pollinator interactions reveals that the presence of abundant plant species favours the pollination of rare species. Such asymmetric facilitation might promote the coexistence of ...