What happens when pollinators bring the wrong pollen?
Botany One6 Loka 2021

What happens when pollinators bring the wrong pollen?

Surely once insects have brought pollen to a flower, then plant-plant interaction is over? Not so, says Gerardo Arceo-Gómez, who argues that heterospecific (or other plants') pollen arriving in a flower might affect plant diversity.

You can read this at https://www.botany.one/2021/10/what-happens-when-pollinators-bring-the-wrong-pollen/

You can read the original paper at: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab082

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