Evolution, development and function of flower patterns

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• Ms Alice Fairnie (Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden Cambridge)
• Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:10-14:00
• The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

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Flowers show a huge diversity of colourful patterns on the surface of their petals which are thought to act as visual signals to animal pollinators. My research is exploring flower patterns: their evolution, development, and function. I work with Hibiscus which has a bullseye pattern created by combining contrasting cell types and pigmentation in the basal and distal regions of the petal. The talk will cover the work carried out in my first six months of my PhD which focused on understanding how flower patterns form, creating Hibiscus flowers with modified patterns, and observing bumblebees interacting with flowers with different patterns.

This talk is part of the Darwin College Science Seminars series.

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