Scientists discovered that swollen-thorn acacias invested more in ant rewards during a drought, suggesting that mutualistic ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 83, No. 9 (Sep., 1996), pp. 1187-1194 (8 pages) The extrafloral nectaries of many plants promote ant defense against insect herbivores. We examined the influence of ...

Are Nectaries Male or Female? Nectaries are neither male nor female. However, the glands can occur in male and female flowers, as well as those that contain both male and female parts.

But nectaries are lost so frequently among plant families that they clearly incur some cost, says Pringle. It takes a lot of up-front investment to build the dedicated structures and to keep them ...

The team used advanced techniques to search for transporters that could be involved in sugar transport and were present in nectaries. They identified SWEET9 as a key player in three diverse flowering ...

Extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) occur on the corollas of 3 dioecious species of Solanum (S. cunninghamii Benth., S. dioicum W V. Fitzg., and S. tudununggae Symon) from Australia. Solanum dioicum also ...

The nectaries are found on lots of plants but most especially on members of the Prunus family, which includes peaches, nectarines and cherries.

The study, recently published in Nature Communications, revealed that ferns and flowering plants independently evolved nectaries, specialized structures that secrete sugary rewards to attract ant ...

Other plants reported to have extrafloral nectaries that we grow in New Mexico include cucumbers, ash trees, cotton, sunflowers, black locusts, willows, and the houseplants croton, cattleya orchid ...

Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48646-x ...