I owe thanks to Dr Andrej Pavlovič for being a patient guinea pig with my first press-release (you can find it on Science Daily) and to Lizzie Shannon-Little at OUP for helping put it out. It’s good timing because another paper by Pavlovič on carnivorous plants and photosynthesis is now a year old – which [...]

Heterostyly is widely distributed among the angiosperms, but detailed studies are limited to few taxonomic groups. Sánchez et al. (pp. 321–331) ascertain the presence of different stigma height polymorphisms among species of Nivenia, formerly considered either as monomorphic or distylous. Comparisons of the degree of reciprocity, pollen transfer and floral integration give results that are [...]