HERITABILITY OF NECTAR TRAITS: WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE?

By R. Mitchell. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology

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Bee visitation rates to cultivated sunflowers increase with the amount and accessibility of nectar sugars (2017, background): “Further research into genotype by environment interactions on nectar production and flower morphology could provide additional insights into the causes of floral trait variation (Mitchell 2004).”
Working Towards a Holistic View on Flower Traits— How Floral Scents Mediate Plant-Animal Interactions in Concert with Other Floral Characters (2015, background): “g.(134) Nonetheless, some studies show that nectar sugar and amino acid composition as well as quantity reflect the requirements of the principal pollinators.”
Chemistry of floral rewards: intra- and interspecific variability of nectar and pollen secondary metabolites across taxa (2018, background): “In other work, nectar traits such as 698 volume and sugar composition had high heritability, but were generally measured in greenhouse 699 rather than field settings (Mitchell 2004).”
ECOLOGICAL COSTS AND BENEFITS OF DEFENSES IN NECTAR (2005, unknown): “Although only a handful of studies have examined the heritability of nectar traits, most have found substantial heritable variation (reviewed in Mitchell 2004).”
Unifying functional trait approaches to understand the assemblage of ecological communities: synthesizing taxonomic divides (2019, background): “However, it is often difficult to determine if a trait is adaptive or heritable without lengthy observation and/or experimentation (Dohm 2002, Mitchell 2004).”
ATTRACTING ANTAGONISTS: DOES FLORAL NECTAR INCREASE LEAF HERBIVORY? (2004, background): “Although some studies have found heritable variation in nectar production (reviewed by Mitchell (2004), this Special Feature), it is possible that in many instances selection on nectar production will not result in evolutionary change, due to high environmental variability.”