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Biochemical Basis of Plant-Pollination Interaction

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Plants use chemical components to attract potential pollinators to visit flowers and facilitate the efficient transfer of pollen The Evolution of plant volatile production in pollination ecology and in pollinator-plant relationships has been discussed in this chapter. When insects, birds and bats visit flowers for nectar and pollen, they usually pollinate flowers thereby benefitting from the mutualistic interaction. This interrelationship between the two is governed by biochemical factors such as scent, colour and nutritional value of nectar and pollen. For example, the faecal-smelling indole of Arum maculatum is also produced, surprisingly, in the blossoms of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae), where the pollinators are diabroticite beetles. Indole acts synergistically with 1, 2, 4-trimethoxybenzene and ( E )- cinnamaldehyde to attract the beetles to the flowers for pollination. In visiting flowers to collect their food, bees may come into contact with toxic constituents. Alkaloids, for example, are known to be present in certain nectars. The apparent reliance on one or a few floral scent constituents as attractants and few and specific pollinators may indicate co-evolution.

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