A hot story about plant sex
Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia Montoya and Senior Fellow Naomi Pierce were featured in the Harvard Gazette for their work on a research study that shows infrared radiation from plants serves as invitation to pollinating insects.
The new study, published in a cover story in Science, shows that infrared radiation is a pollination signal, one far older than the vivid colors that later became dominant among flowering plants.
Read the full Harvard Gazette article.
