{"id":5459,"date":"2017-03-28T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:46:11","slug":"plant-evolution-is-influenced-by-pollinator-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/plant-evolution-is-influenced-by-pollinator-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant evolution is influenced by pollinator species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5461\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5461\" class=\"wp-image-5461 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Figure-2-680x1024-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Plants pollinated for 9 generations by bumblebees (left) and by hoverflies (right).  (Gervasi and Schiestl)\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Figure-2-680x1024-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Figure-2-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brassica rapa plants pollinated for 9 generations by bumblebees (left) and by hoverflies (right). <em>(Gervasi and Schiestl)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In just 11 generations of pollination by two different species, plant evolution diverged drastically in height, flower fragrance, flower colour, and reliance on the pollinator for reproduction. A new study was conducted in a greenhouse instead of in the field in order to create an experimental system. Researchers\u00a0observed how the plant <em>Brassica rapa<\/em> evolved when pollinated by either bumblebees or hoverflies. Their findings showed a drastic change in plant evolution driven solely by pollinator species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel D. L. Gervasi &amp; Florian P Schiestl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Gervasi, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Email: daniel.gervasi@systbot.uzh.ch<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms14691\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in<em> Nature Communications<\/em> on March 14, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just 11 generations of pollination by two different species, plant evolution diverged drastically in height, flower fragrance, flower colour, and reliance on the pollinator for reproduction. A new study was conducted in a greenhouse instead of in the field in order to create an experimental system. Researchers\u00a0observed how the plant Brassica rapa evolved when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5460,"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":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Figure-1-1024x680.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}