Flower visitors have a taste for salt, but this may have little relevance to nectar evolution: a comment on Finkelstein et al. 2022: Evolution of salt in nectar

Graham H. Pyke; Zong-Xin Ren

doi:10.26786/1920-7603(2022)700

Authors

Graham H. Pyke Macquarie University
Zong-Xin Ren Kunming Institute of Botany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26786/1920-7603(2022)700

Keywords:

pollination, nectar, salt concentration, evolution, pollinator attraction, pollinator manipulation

Abstract

Presently no abstract

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