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Undoing the ‘nasty: dissecting touch-sensitive stigma movement (thigmonasty) and its loss in self-pollinating monkeyflowers
2024-01-29
Abstract excerpt
Rapid touch-sensitive stigma closure is a novel plant reproductive trait found in hundreds of Lamiales species. The origins, mechanisms, and functions of stigma closure remain poorly understood, but its repeated loss in self-fertilizing taxa and direct tests implicate adaptive roles in animal-mediated cross-pollination. Here, we document several additional losses of stigma closure in monkeyflowers ( Mimulus) , th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0531ea33-b4d8-52d7-8f2c-5d56040a4e09
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.01.25.577247
