Vegetable crops possess a prominent nutri-metabolite pool that not only contributes to the
crop performance in the fields, but also offers nutritional security for humans. In the pursuit of …

Numerous plant taxa are threatened by habitat destruction or overexploitation. To overcome
these threats, new methods are urgently needed for rescuing threatened and endangered …

Across kingdoms, organisms ameliorate UV stress by increasing UV-absorbing
pigmentation. Rapid ozone degradation during the 20 th century resulted in elevated UV …

Variation in floral displays, both between and within species, has been long known to be
shaped by the mutualistic interactions that plants establish with their pollinators. However …

Floral nectar and other reward facilitate crop pollination, and in so doing, increase the
amount and breadth of food available for humans. Though abundance and diversity of …

Background Plant performance in agricultural and natural settings varies with moisture
availability, and understanding the range of potential drought responses and the underlying …

Floral scent is considered an important long‐distance signal that attracts pollinators, but also
has been suggested to function at shorter distances such as within‐flower nectar guides or …

Despite the wide interest in flower colours, only after the end of the nineteenth-century
studies started to comprise floral UV reflection, which is invisible to humans but visible to the …

Apart from floral morphology and colours perceived by the human eye, ultraviolet (UV)
reflectance acts as an important visual advertisement of numerous flowering plant species …

Introduction Pollinating flower-consuming mutualisms are considered exemplary models for
studying coevolution due to their rarity. Visual cues are considered to have a major role in …