Beverley Glover - Evolution and development of petal nanoscale ridges
KMIS lecture with Beverley Glover, approaching questions of floral evolution in an integrative way, combining molecular genetic approaches to understand floral development with functional analyses using bumblebees and other pollinators.
The enormous diversity of flower colour is largely the result of modifications to and combinations of chemical pigments. But some plants also use physics to modify the colour of their flowers. In this lecture Beverley will describe the way that diffractions gratings, formed from folds of the epidermal cuticle, can produce structural colour in flowers. She will summarise recent work analysing the distribution of this trait in the plant kingdom, its function in pollinator attraction and the developmental programmes underlying the formation of floral iridescence.
Time: 18:00 GMT
