Same visitors, different outcomes: floral phenotype gates pollinator-vectored nectar microbial establishment
Guillaume Tueux, Roland Mumm, Katarina Cankar, Marie‐Pierre Jacquemot, Oceane Renard, Nicolas Langlade, Aurelien L. Carlier
The paper shows that pollinator guilds shape sunflower nectar microbiota in a genotype-dependent manner, with diurnal visits seeding specialist taxa that depend on nectar availability and composition.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology