{"id":3181,"date":"2014-10-07T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2014-10-08T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:28:12","slug":"vibration-is-key-to-wind-pollination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/vibration-is-key-to-wind-pollination\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibration is key to wind pollination<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3182\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3182\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3182\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0012.jpg\" alt=\"A new study of this English plantain shows that its stamens (the part of the plant that carries pollen) are specially adapted to vibrate in low-speed gusts of wind, allowing them to thrive without animal pollinators. (Photo credit: David Timerman)\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study of this English plantain shows that its stamens (the part of the plant that carries pollen) are specially adapted to vibrate in low-speed gusts of wind, allowing them to thrive without animal pollinators. (Photo credit: David Timerman)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019re a plant, and the animals or insects that pollinate you are disappearing or gone, your next best option might be wind pollination, and a new study sheds light on what adaptations are needed to make this transition.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers looked at flowers of English plantain, which like most wind-pollinated plants evolved from an animal-pollinated ancestor. They used a vibration apparatus to determine the specific frequency at which its pollen-bearing stamens gained enough energy to release the pollen. Field observations show that these frequencies are achieved by eddies in normal wind patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The results suggest that changing the thickness and flexibility of their stamens is one way flowers can adapt to a lack of pollinators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/11\/101\/20140866\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 7, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>David Timerman, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a plant, and the animals or insects that pollinate you are disappearing or gone, your next best option might be wind pollination, and a new study sheds light on what adaptations are needed to make this transition. Researchers looked at flowers of English plantain, which like most wind-pollinated plants evolved from an animal-pollinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,171,917,50,1618],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-evolution","tag-ontario","tag-plants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0012.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Pj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}