Various strategies have been evolved in the pollination of various plants. An internal team of scientists investigated in terms of reproductive strategies, three sister species pairs, from different plant families.
In the pollination of flowering plants, the mechanism that explains the shift from insect to bird pollination (ornithophily) has been explained. This study has now appeared in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
The study explains that insects, in particular bees are globally the most common pollinators. The study led by Dr. Abrahamczyk and his colleagues showed that all the hummingbird-pollinated species had significantly higher seed set and germinating rates when pollinated with pollen from another plant individual of the same species.
“Hummingbird pollination has evolved in populations of bee-pollinated species that are especially reliant on cross pollination, i.e., cannot self-pollinate” said Dr. Abrahmamczyk.
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