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Plant Nectar

Known as: Nectars, Nectars, Plant, Nectar, Plant 
Sugar-rich liquid produced in plant glands called nectaries. It is either produced in flowers or other plant structures, providing a source of… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Honey constituents up-regulate detoxification and immunity genes in the western honey bee Apis mellifera
As a managed pollinator, the honey bee Apis mellifera is critical to the American agricultural enterprise. Recent colony losses… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
Nectar chemistry is tailored for both attraction of mutualists and protection from exploiters
Plants produce nectar to attract pollinators in the case of floral nectar (FN) and defenders in the case of extrafloral nectar… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Honeydew as a food source for natural enemies: Making the best of a bad meal?
Review
2004
Review
2004
How plant¿animal interactions signal new insights in communication
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Exotics as host plants of the California butterfly fauna
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Can alloethism in workers of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, be explained in terms of foraging efficiency?
Bumblebee workers vary greatly in size, unlike workers of most other social bees. This variability has not been adequately… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Task partitioning in insect societies
Summary: Task partitioning is the name given to the phenomenon in which a piece of work is divided among two or more workers… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Spurring plant diversification: are floral nectar spurs a key innovation?
High levels of species diversity in taxonomic groups have often been explained by a key innovation. However, the difficulty in… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
What does it cost a plant to produce floral nectar?
To understand the adaptive nature of floral nectar production it is necessary to determine for individual plants the associated… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
A brief historical review of the chemistry of floral nectar
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