A massive community-science dataset reveals convergent evolution of delayed flowering phenology in North American red-flowering plants.

ABSTRACT: The radiation of angiosperms is marked by a phenomenal diversity of floral size, shape, color, scent, and reward. Through hundreds of years of documentation and quantification, scientists have sought to make sense of this variation by defining pollination syndromes. These syndromes are the convergent evolution of common suits of floral traits across distantly related species that have evolved by selection to optimize pollination strategies. The availability of community-science datasets provides an opportunity to develop new tools and to examine new traits that may help further characterize broad patterns of flowering plant diversity. Here we test the hypothesis that flowering phenology can also be a pollination syndrome trait. We generate a novel flower color dataset by using GPT-4 with V

SUBMITTER: McKenzie PF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11463436 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature