ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality.
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- The food of life: which nectar do mosquitoes feed on?-An evidence-based meta-analysis.Environmental entomology · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts of increased temperatures on floral rewards and pollinator interactions: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Pooled it
- Taxonomic Identification of Two Novel Genera and Four Novel Species of Lipolytic Floral-Associated Yeasts.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sugar-mediated physical constraints drive the evolution of pollination drops into nectar.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Characterization of Botanical and Geographic Origins of Blackthorn (Paliurus spina-christi Miller) Honeys From the Thrace Region of Türkiye.Chemistry & biodiversity · 2026Article
- Influence of drought stress on the metabolite and ion composition in nectar and nectaries of different day- and night-flowering Nicotiana species.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Temporal Dynamics of Nectar and Pollen Production in Protandrous Flowers ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- The lepidopteran analyst: how caterpillars, moths and butterflies encode taste identity and valence.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- Crop: The Black Box of Mosquito Vector Fitness.Insects · 2026Review
- Effects of a caffeine-based diet on insecticide resistance and longevity in infected Anopheles coluzzii.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Diverse Forage Enhances the Antimicrobial Potency of Australian Honey.MicrobiologyOpen · 2026Article
- Chemical Fingerprint of Floral Nectar in Apple (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Augmenting plant-pollinator interactions to promote biodiversity and global food security.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Exploiting nectar and blood feeding cues and phagostimulants to optimise Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits against a sand fly vector of leishmaniasis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Pacific Northwest native plants and native cultivars part II: plant and pollinator traits.Environmental entomology · 2025Article
- Microbial Volatiles from Human Skin and Floral Nectar: Insufficiently Understood Adult Feeding Cues To Improve Odor-Based Traps for Aedes Vector Control.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Review
- Nectary starch degradation affects nectar chemical composition, but not nectar sugars, in Arabidopsis thaliana.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Compositional Assessment of Honeys from the Central Atlantic Forest: Multielement and Physicochemical Characterization.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Do honey phytochemicals modulate forager aggression and the gut microbiome in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.)?Biology open · 2025Article
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Abstract
Nectar, the main floral reward for pollinators, varies greatly in composition and concentration. The assumption that nectar quality is equivalent to its sugar (energy) concentration is too simple. Diverse non-sugar components, especially amino acids and secondary metabolites, play various roles in nutrition and health of pollinators. Many nectar compounds have indirect effects by altering the foraging behaviour of pollinators or protecting them from disease. This review also emphasizes the water component of nectar, often ignored because of evaporative losses and difficulties in sampling small nectar volumes. Nectar properties vary with environmental factors, pollinator visits and microbial contamination. Pollination mutualisms depend on the ability of insect and vertebrate pollinators to cope with and benefit from the variation and diversity in nectar chemistry. This article is part of the theme issue 'Natural processes influencing pollinator health: from chemistry to landscapes'.
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