Possible tobacco progenitors share long-tongued hawkmoths as pollen vectors

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 241, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Nattero, J ^a,b   More M ^a,b   Sersic A N ^a,b   Cocucci, A A ^a,b  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bats; Hawkmoths; N. sylvestris; Nicotiana otophora; Pollination; Solanaceae; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA OTOPHORA; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANACEAE; SPHINGIDAE; TABACUM;

EID: 0242592159     PISSN: 03782697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-003-0027-9     Document Type: Article

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