ArticleFrontiers in plant science2020
Changing How Biologists View Flowers-Color as a Perception Not a Trait.
Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Multiple transcription factors and genes jointly regulate the light-dependent flavonoid biosynthesis mechanism of stem color in Hydrangea macrophylla.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Evolution of UV reflection in bee- and bird-pollinated flowers.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Floral Color and Family Drive Contrasting Plant-Pollinator Responses to Nutrient Enrichment.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Intraspecific floral colour variation in threePlant diversity · 2024Article
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- Flower colour and size-signals vary with altitude and resulting climate on the tropical-subtropical islands of Taiwan.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Caution with colour calculations: spectral purity is a poor descriptor of flower colour visibility.Annals of botany · 2022Article
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- Motion: enhancing signals and concealing cues.Biology open · 2021Article
- Why Variation in Flower Color May Help Reproductive Success in the Endangered Australian OrchidFrontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Flower Color Evolution and the Evidence of Pollinator-Mediated Selection.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
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Abstract
Studying flower color evolution can be challenging as it may require several different areas of expertise, ranging from botany and ecology through to understanding color sensing of insects and thus how they perceive flower signals. Whilst studies often view plant-pollinator interactions from the plant's perspective, there is growing evidence from psychophysics studies that pollinators have their own complex decision making processes depending on their perception of color, viewing conditions and individual experience. Mimicry of rewarding flowers by orchids is a fascinating system for studying the pollinator decision making process, as rewarding model flowering plants and mimics can be clearly characterized. Here, we focus on a system where the rewardless orchid
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