ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024
Pollen chemical and mechanical defences restrict host-plant use by bees.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Sunflower Pollen and Bumble Bee Health: Mechanisms, Modifiers and Trade-Offs.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Up High, Hot and Dry: Individual Reproductive Output in Subalpine Bees Declines With Increasing Drought Severity.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Antioxidant and Tyrosinase-Inhibitory Activities and Biological Bioactivities of Flavonoid Derivatives fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A guide to sunflowers: floral resource nutrition for bee health and key pollination syndromes.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Pollen chemical and mechanical defences restrict host-plant use by bees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plants produce an array of chemical and mechanical defences that provide protection against many herbivores and pathogens. Putatively defensive compounds and structures can even occur in floral rewards: for example, the pollen of some plant taxa contains toxic compounds or possesses conspicuous spines. Yet little is known about whether pollen defences restrict host-plant use by bees. In other words, do bees, like other insect herbivores, tolerate the defences of their specific host plants while being harmed by non-host defences? To answer this question, we compared the effects of a chemical defence from
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