{"id":3915,"date":"2015-03-04T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2015-03-04T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:21:40","slug":"pollinator-recognition-in-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/pollinator-recognition-in-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollinator-recognition in plants<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3918\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_pollen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3918\" class=\"wp-image-3918\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_pollen.jpg\" alt=\"The Green Hermit Hummingbird (Phaethornis guy) has a specilized bill, which signals to the plant to begin producing larger quantities of pollen.(Image credit: Eric Chan, Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_pollen.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_pollen-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Green Hermit Hummingbird (Phaethornis guy) has a specilized bill, which signals to the plant to begin producing larger quantities of pollen.(Image credit: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Phaethornis_guy.jpg\">Eric Chan, Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Researchers have shown that a plant can discriminate among its pollinators. The plant, <em>Heliconia tortuosa<\/em>, produced 5.7 times as much pollen when it was visited by particular species of hummingbirds than other species or insects.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The researchers suggest this ability enables the plant to maximize its reproductive strategy as the favoured hummingbirds travel greater distances, reducing the likelihood of the plant inbreeding.<br \/>\nA video is available.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/suppl\/2015\/02\/28\/1419522112.DCSupplemental\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">video<\/span><\/a> is available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2015\/02\/26\/1419522112.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 2<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Matthew G. Betts, Oregon State University, Oregon, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Adam S. Hadley, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have shown that a plant can discriminate among its pollinators. The plant, Heliconia tortuosa, produced 5.7 times as much pollen when it was visited by particular species of hummingbirds than other species or insects. The researchers suggest this ability enables the plant to maximize its reproductive strategy as the favoured hummingbirds travel greater distances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3918,"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":[170,114,917,1968,2379],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds","tag-evolution","tag-intelligence","tag-plant-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_pollen.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-119","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}