[Pollinator] Fwd: Polylepis paper

[Peter Bernhardt]

The attached paper is online but will not receive formal publication in the
International Journal of Plant Sciences for another month.  This is a
departure for the Bernhardt/Meier lab in two ways.  It's the first
wind-pollinated species analyzed under our Zeiss Axioscope.  Second, note
how a fungus can attack pollen grains while they cling to a stigma.  There
are probably plenty of other examples in animal-pollinated systems but we
have not explored them.  After all, plenty of flower-visiting insects carry
fungus spores and we've wondered, in a previous paper, if bees are carrying
the fungal spores that ultimately weaken Asclepias meadii (see below) and
stop individual plants from making seeds?


Brown GK, J Herrera, P Bernhardt,REdens-Meier 2015 Potential fungal

pathogens of Mead’s milkweed (Asclepias meadii: Apocynaceae).
Nat Areas J 35:599–605.

Peter

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From: Gerardo Camilo <camilogr at slu.edu>
Date: Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:06 AM
Subject: Polylepis paper
To: Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>, Retha Meier <rmeier3 at gmail.com>


It officially comes out next month's issue.

-- 
Gerardo R Camilo, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor of Biology
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
   & International Studies
Conservation Fellow, St. Louis Zoo
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