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Xin‐She Yang
Flower pollination is an intriguing process in the natural world. Its evolutionary characteristics can be used to design new optimization algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm, namely, flower pollination algorithm, inspired by the pollination process of flowers. We first use ten test functions to…
Ruby E. Stephens, Rachael V. Gallagher, Lily Dun, Will Cornwell + 1 more
Pollination is a fundamental process driving the speciation of angiosperms (flowering plants). Most contemporary angiosperms are insect pollinated, but abiotic pollination by wind or water and vertebrate pollination by birds or mammals occurs in many lineages. We model the evolution of pollination across angiosperms…
Hannes F. Paulus
Pollination syndromes evolved under the reciprocal selection of pollinators and plants (coevolution). Here, the two main methods are reviewed which are applied to prove such selection. (i) The indirect method is a cross-lineage approach using phylogenetical trees to understand the phylogeny. Thus, features of single…
Ratheesh Kallivalappil, Sheena C. Cotter
The increasing urgency to understand the role and value of pollination in agriculture and plant conservation has elevated pollinators to a critical focus of research. While most crops—excluding cereals—are partially or entirely dependent on pollinators for fruit and seed production or benefit from improved yields due…
Tahsin Aziz, Tashreef Muhammad, Md. Rashedul Karim Chowdhury, Mohammad Shafiul Alam
'Mohammad Shafiul Alam'] Numerous meta-heuristic algorithms have been influenced by nature. Over the past couple of decades, their quantity has been significantly escalating. The majority of these algorithms attempt to emulate natural biological and physical phenomena. This research concentrates on the Flower…
Ettore Pacini, Rudy Dolferus
During evolution of land plants, the haploid gametophytic stage has been strongly reduced in size and the diploid sporophytic phase has become the dominant growth form. Both male and female gametophytes are parasitic to the sporophyte and reside in separate parts of the flower located either on the same plant or on…
Xingshi He, Xin‐She Yang, Mehmet Karamanoglu, Yuxin Zhao
Flower pollination algorithm is a recent metaheuristic algorithm for solving nonlinear global optimization problems. The algorithm has also been extended to solve multiobjective optimization with promising results. In this work, we analyze this algorithm mathematically and prove its convergence properties by using…
Xiaohong Gan, Lingling Cao, Xia Zhang, Huaichun Li
Background Tetracentron sinense Oliv. is an endangered tree mainly distributed in south-central China. The breeding system and pollination ecology of T. sinense are unclear. With a conservation perspective, the floral biology, breeding system and pollination ecology of Tetracentron sinense Oliv. were investigated, in…
Uddhav Bhattarai, Ranjan Sapkota, Safal Kshetri, Changki Mo + 3 more
Development and Field Evaluation Authors: ['Uddhav Bhattarai' 'Ranjan Sapkota' 'Safal Kshetri' 'Changki Mo' 'Matthew D. Whiting' 'Qin Zhang' 'Manoj Karkee'] Global food production depends upon successful pollination, a process that relies on natural and managed pollinators. However, natural pollinators are declining…
Li-Jun Chen, Ke-Wei Liu, Xin-Ju Xiao, Wen-Chieh Tsai + 4 more
'Jie Huang' 'Zhong-Jian Liu' 'Simon Joly'] Background Due to the spatial separation between male and female pollen grains from the anther of most flowering plants, including orchids, pollens are transported by wind or animals and deposited onto the receptive surface of the stigma of a different plant. However…
Chuizheng Kong, Alex Qiu, Idris Wibowo, MJ Ren + 4 more
Autonomous Microscopic Inspection Authors: ['Chuizheng Kong' 'Alex Qiu' 'Idris Wibowo' 'MJ Ren' 'Aishik Dhori' 'Kai‐Shu Ling' 'Ai-Ping Hu' 'Shreyas Kousik'] Abstract— Effective pollination is a key challenge for indoor farming, since bees struggle to navigate without the sun. While a variety of robotic system solutions…
Madhu Raina, Raman Kumar, Veenu Kaul
This article focuses on how thigmotropic stigmas play a role in limiting fruit set of plants in their non-native environment. Their pollination success requires optimum pollen transfer in terms of its quality as well as quantity and is dependent on efficient pollinator visitation. This study is particularly valuable…
E. Fernando Cagua, Hugo J. Marrero, Jason M. Tylianakis, Daniel B. Stouffer
A fundamental feature of pollination systems is the indirect facilitation and competition that arises when plants species share pollinators. When plants share pollinators, the pollination service can be influenced. This depends not only on how many partners plant species share, but also by multiple intertwined factors…
Steven D. Johnson, Lawrence D. Harder
Mating success of flowering plants depends strongly on the efficiencies of pollen removal from flowers and its subsequent dispersal to conspecific stigmas. We characterized the economy of pollen dispersal in flowering plants by analysing pollen fates and their correlates for 228 species. The mean percentage of pollen…
Chang-Long Xiao, Hui Deng, Gan-Ju Xiang, Kadiori Edwin Luguba + 2 more
'You-Hao Guo' 'Chun-Feng Yang'] Successive stamen movement directly controls pollen presentation schedules through sequential stamen maturation and changes the extent of herkogamy by altering the positions of sexual organs. We conducted floral manipulations to determine the function of successive stamen movement in…
Corneile Minnaar, Bruce Anderson
To understand the evolution of flowers and mating systems in animal-pollinated plants, we have to directly address the function for which flowers evolved—the movement of pollen from anthers to stigmas. However, despite a long history of making significant advances in our understanding natural selection and evolution…
Bruce Anderson, Sam McCarren, Ana Carolina Sabino-Oliveira, Vinicius L. G. Brito
Pollen production is a costly investment in angiosperm reproduction, yet only a small fraction of grains reach conspecific stigmas. While pollen loss to floral visitors is well studied, the role of abiotic factors in shaping pollen fate has been largely overlooked. Understanding the relative contributions of biotic and…
Abdelkrim Rebiai
Bee pollen is prepared themselves by pollens collecting from plants and has nutritive and therapeutic properties that make it attractive for human health. It has a typical composition related to the botanical origin and geographical location. This study aims to distinguish and identify bee pollen belonging to different…
Ping Yang, E. Adrian Henle, Xiaoli Fern, Cory M. Simon
Pesticides benefit agriculture by increasing crop yield, quality, and security. However, pesticides may inadvertently harm bees, which are agriculturally and ecologically vital as pollinators. The development of new pesticides---driven by pest resistance to and demands to reduce negative environmental impacts of…
Ping Yang, E. Adrian Henle, Cory M. Simon, Xiaoli Fern
Pesticides benefit agriculture by increasing crop yield, quality, and security. However, pesticides may inadvertently harm bees, which are valuable as pollinators. Thus, candidate pesticides in development pipelines must be assessed for toxicity to bees. Leveraging a data set of 382 molecules with toxicity labels from…
Ping Yang, E. Adrian Henle, Xiaoli Fern, Cory M. Simon
Pesticides benefit agriculture by increasing crop yield, quality, and security. However, pesticides may inadvertently harm bees, which are agriculturally and ecologically vital as pollinators. The development of new pesticides---driven by pest resistance to and demands to reduce negative environmental impacts of…