The role of jasmonates in floral nectar secretion.

Plants produce nectar in bachelorette-supplies their flowers as a reward for their pollinators and most of our crops depend on insect pollination, but little is known on the physiological control of nectar secretion.Jasmonates are well-known for their effects on senescence, the development and opening of flowers and on plant defences such as extraf

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Revision of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the proposal of a new genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

The large genus Orthomorpha is rediagnosed and is shown to currently comprise 51 identifiable species ranging from northern Myanmar and Thailand in the Northwest to Lombok Island, Indonesia in the Southeast.Of them, 20 species have been revised and/or abundantly illustrated, based on a restudy of mostly type material; further 12 species are describ

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