Super excited about my latest paper published in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social 🌸🐝 Plant honesty to their pollinators is partly heritable; bees prefer honest plants and these produce more seeds. Then why are there dishonest genotypes? 🤔 that's the next question! Link below

Effects of anther-stigma position on cross-#pollination efficiency in a # hermaphroditic plant New #AJB research by Matias Baranzelli, Manuel Ochoa-Sánchez, Sergio Ramos, Fernanda Baena-Díaz, Paula Sosenski, Karina Boege, Cesar Domínguez & Juan Fornoni doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

Yayy 🌱🪲🐝🐌- A list of stellar ecologists and myself showed that (1) species interactions can be summarised at the guild level, except for a few critical species, (2) they occur along a continuum from positive-to-negative, and (3) they have relatively weak strength except between plants!

Van Valen's Red Queen Hypothesis says that species within ecosystems must constantly change (as in Alice in Wonderland, my drawing) to remain in place. This classic paper was rejected multiple times, and the author created a new journal to publish it mn.uio.no/cees/english...

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

Paper alert 📄🚨 Plasticity in Plant Mating Systems @Trends in Plant Science Most of the seeds, fruits and vegetables we enjoy are the result of plant reproduction 🌸 🌻 🐝.

New paper from our group! We found that maize plants from push-push fields had a higher relative abundance of metabolites toxic to insect herbivores. This suggests that maize plants growing with companion plants are "stronger" than maize plants growing alone. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Hello Science Bluesky! We just moved here from the other page and are looking forward to engaging with everyone here. We are the Spatial Genetics lab at the University of Zurich and work on plant ecological chemistry, genomics, remote sensing, biodiversity and much more! 🍂🌱🪴🌳🛩️🌍🛰️

2 open PhD positions about unravelling plant-insect communication for sustainable agroecosystems in Switzerland! informationecology.github.io/openpositions/