Harvesting pollen with vibrations: towards an integrative understanding of the proximate and ultimate reasons for buzz pollination

M Vallejo-Marin, AL Russell - Annals of Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Buzz pollination, a type of interaction in which bees use vibrations to extract pollen from
certain kinds of flowers, captures a close relationship between thousands of bee and plant …

[HTML][HTML] Buzz-pollinating bees deliver thoracic vibrations to flowers through periodic biting

C Woodrow, N Jafferis, Y Kang, M Vallejo-Marín - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Pollinator behavior is vital to plant-pollinator interactions, affecting the acquisition of floral
rewards, patterns of pollen transfer, and plant reproductive success. During buzz pollination …

Exploring the patterns of evolution: Core thoughts and focus on the saltational model

G Usai, M Fambrini, C Pugliesi, S Simoni - BioSystems, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Modern Synthesis, a pillar in biological thought, united Darwin's species origin
concepts with Mendel's laws of character heredity, providing a comprehensive …

Buzz pollination: investigations of pollen expulsion using the discrete element method

C Boucher-Bergstedt… - Journal of the Royal …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Buzz pollination involves the release of pollen from, primarily, poricidal anthers through
vibrations generated by certain bee species. Despite previous experimental and numerical …

Buzz pollination: A theoretical analysis via scaling invariance

D Borin, VLG de Brito, ED Leonel, M Hansen - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Nearly half of the bee species can perform a fascinating stereotyped behavior to collect
pollen grains by vibrating flowers, known as buzz pollination. During the floral visit, these …

Flower angle favors pollen export efficiency in the snowdrop Galanthus nivalis (Linnaeus, 1753) but not in the lesser celandine Ficaria verna (Huds, 1762)

P Prokop, Z Ježová, M Mešková… - Plant Signaling & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Flower angle is crucially important for accurate pollination and flower protection against
abiotic factors. Evolutionary factors shaping floral traits are particularly strong for bilaterally …

The fate of pollen in two morphologically contrasting buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers

CA Vasquez-Castro, E Morel, B Garcia-Simpson… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Premise of the study: Pollen transfer efficiency (PTE) and pollen deposition patterns on a
pollinator's body significantly influence plant reproductive success. However, studies on …

Effects of floral symmetry and orientation on the consistency of pollinator entry angle

N Jirgal, K Ohashi - The Science of Nature, 2023 - Springer
Since the publication of Sprengel's (1793) observations, it has been considered that flowers
with zygomorphic (or bilaterally symmetrical) corollas evolved to restrict the movement of …