Question: My nectarine and peach trees have hard pale green ball things near the base of leaves. What are they and are they harmful to my trees? Answer: How cool! I’d never heard of anything like this ...

• Background and Aims The occurrence of nectaries in fruits is restricted to a minority of plant families and consistent reports of their occurrence are not found associated with Fabaceae, mainly ...

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

Plants and the animals that eat them have evolved together in fascinating ways, creating a dynamic interplay of survival strategies. Many plants have developed physical and chemical defenses to fend ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Extrafloral nectar is an indirect, generally ant-mediated, defence mechanism that is particularly common in tropical plants. This study ...

To make sure that flying pollinators come to flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract the animals. Scientists have now identified the sugar transporter that ...

Flowers get all the attention when it comes to providing nectar for pollinating insects, but Tino shows another, less well-known source of nectar. They’re called extra-floral nectaries - quite a ...

Ant–plant mutualisms constitute a compelling model of coevolution, whereby plants have evolved specialised structures, notably extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), to entice ants that in turn afford ...

Nectar, the high-energy 'honey' produced by flowers, might be a brilliant distraction technique to help protect a flower's reproductive parts, according to new research. Rather than merely providing a ...

Scientists discovered that swollen-thorn acacias invested more in ant rewards during a drought, suggesting that mutualistic interactions play a crucial role in the plant’s survival, even during ...