#Homostyly
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watcherpond.bsky.social
Bogbean homostyly in Greenland. No other info in Schou et al. Paper in Canadian J Botany 1987 notes old report but concludes measurements of flowers in Denmark and Greenland throw considerable doubt on the existence of homostyly in this species. I have not dug any further into the literature.
January 7, 2024 at 8:24 PM
journalsysevo.bsky.social
🌸 From our special issue on chemical communication between plants and insects! 🌸 Zeng et al. show that evolutionary breakdown of distyly to homostyly is accompanied by reductions of floral scent in Primula oreodoxa. 🌸 #PlantScience #Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Diagram to illustrate the 12 compounds that differed significantly between distylous (L- and S-morph) and homostylous (H-morph) groups of Primula oreodoxa from Statistical Analysis of Metagenomic Profiles (q < 0.01). Compounds that were more abundant in homostylous and distylous groups were plotted on the positive and negative side of the 0 line, respectively (circles with 95% confidence intervals). Mean proportions are shown by the colored bars.
March 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
aobp.bsky.social
🐝🌸New article in @aobp.bsky.social on the role of short-tongued insects and clonal growth in shaping morph ratios and pollen transfer in Limonium otolepis.

Full #openaccess
👉 bit.ly/4aRSGyz

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Scheme showing floral morph variation was studied based on the investigation of pollen transfer mediated by clonal growth and pollinator functional groups in Limonium otolepis. It was shown that short-tongued insects were the primary pollinators due to small flower sizes. However, pollen-feeding Syrphidae sp. triggered asymmetry in pollen flow between high and low sex organs, and promoted the occurance of H-morph with self-incompatibility. It differed from the classical homostyly and might arise from long- and short-styled morphs through a “relaxed selection”. This study is the first to uncover the occurrence of the H-morph and its associated influencing factors in a distylous plant featuring clonal growth, small flowers, and a fragmented population.
May 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
Shunqiu Li et al. explored the #SpatialPattern and #EcologicalAdaptation of heterostylous and homostylous species of #Primula in China. The study suggested that #Homostyly is likely derived from #Heterostylous ancestors in similar geographical context.
Detail: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Species diversity patterns of Primula (the left column) and the variance in species diversity explained by different environment variables (the right column) for overall, heterostylous and homostylous species of Primula in China.
March 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
englishwordbot.bsky.social
The word "homostyly" on a stylized background
July 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM