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Philip C. Stevenson

Royal Botanic Gardens, KewORCID 0000-0002-0736-3619Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Biochemistry· 2 Plant Biology· 1 Synthetic Biology· 1

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Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Organism:plant (other)· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:metabolomics· 1

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Specialization and adaptation in pollen sterol use by wild bees

Ellen C. Baker, Ellen Lamborn, Katie Berry, William E. Kunin, Geraldine A. Wright, Philip C. Stevenson

This study identifies common and specialized sterol use in UK bees, showing that pollen diet drives sterol profiles rather than phylogeny.

iScience · Mar 7, 2026Peer-reviewedBiochemistry

Two hundred years of changes in orchid pollination revealed using herbarium specimens

Lola Torres-Montagner, André Schuiteman, Joanne M Bennett, Tiffany Knight, Demetra Rakosy, Michael F. Fay, Philip C. Stevenson, Carlos Martel

This study uses herbarium specimens to analyze long-term changes in orchid pollination success across three genera over two centuries, revealing declines in some species and increases in others based on pollination strategies and pollinator availability.

bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2025 · PreprintPlant Biology

Pollen sterols are highly diverse but phylogenetically conserved

Ellen C. Baker, Ellen Lamborn, Julia Quiñonez, Stefanía Ásta Karlsdóttir, Abigail Sheppard, Elynor Moore, William E. Kunin, Geraldine A. Wright, Philip C. Stevenson

The paper analyzes sterol diversity in pollen from 295 UK wildflower taxa and finds that sterol composition is conserved within plant lineages and important for bee nutrition.

New Phytologist · Aug 29, 2025Peer-reviewedBiochemistry

Essential sterols from engineered yeast prevent honeybee colony population decline

Elynor Moore, Raquel T. de Sousa, Stella Felsinger, Jonathan Asmund Arnesen, Jane Dannow Dyekjær, Dudley I. Farman, Rui F S Gonçalves, Philip C. Stevenson, Irina Borodina, Geraldine A. Wright

This paper shows that engineered yeast producing essential sterols can improve honeybee colony health and brood rearing when added to pollen substitutes.

bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2024 · PreprintSynthetic Biology