Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration

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2019
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Veits, Marine
Khait, Itzhak
Obolski, Uri
Zinger, Eyal
Boonman, Arjan
Saban, Kfir
Seltzer, Rya
Ben-Dor, Udi
Hadany, Lilach
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Ecology letters ; 22 (2019), 9. - pp. 1483-1492. - Wiley-Blackwell - STM. - ISSN 1461-023X. - eISSN 1461-0248
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Can plants sense natural airborne sounds and respond to them rapidly? We show that Oenothera drummondii flowers, exposed to playback sound of a flying bee or to synthetic sound signals at similar frequencies, produce sweeter nectar within 3 min, potentially increasing the chances of cross pollination. We found that the flowers vibrated mechanically in response to these sounds, suggesting a plausible mechanism where the flower serves as an auditory sensory organ. Both the vibration and the nectar response were frequency-specific: the flowers responded and vibrated to pollinator sounds, but not to higher frequency sound. Our results document for the first time that plants can rapidly respond to pollinator sounds in an ecologically relevant way. Potential implications include plant resource allocation, the evolution of flower shape and the evolution of pollinators sound. Finally, our results suggest that plants may be affected by other sounds as well, including anthropogenic ones.
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570 Biosciences, Biology
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Communication, nectar, plant bioacoustics, plant–pollinator interactions, pollination, signalling, vibration
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ISO 690VEITS, Marine, Itzhak KHAIT, Uri OBOLSKI, Eyal ZINGER, Arjan BOONMAN, Aya GOLDSHTEIN, Kfir SABAN, Rya SELTZER, Udi BEN-DOR, Lilach HADANY, 2019. Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration. In: Ecology letters. Wiley-Blackwell - STM. 22(9), pp. 1483-1492. ISSN 1461-023X. eISSN 1461-0248. Available under: doi: 10.1111/ele.13331
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@article{Veits2019-09Flowe-54843,
  year={2019},
  doi={10.1111/ele.13331},
  title={Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration},
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  journal={Ecology letters},
  pages={1483--1492},
  author={Veits, Marine and Khait, Itzhak and Obolski, Uri and Zinger, Eyal and Boonman, Arjan and Goldshtein, Aya and Saban, Kfir and Seltzer, Rya and Ben-Dor, Udi and Hadany, Lilach}
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