

New paper published: Fritillaria pollination
Roguz K , Pstrokoński P, Ryniewicz J, Chmur M, Bajguz A, Sapir Y. Environment or pollinators? Factors shaping breeding system and spatial...

New publication by Banisha: R2R3-MYB gene family
Just published: Bioinformatic analysis of a family of transcription factors genes that associate with flower development. Phukela, B.,...


Herbivory variability paper published in Science
The Herbivory Variability Network (M. L. Robinson, P. G. Hahn, B. D. Inouye, N. Underwood, S. R. Whitehead, K. C. Abbott, E. M. Bruna, N....


Iris conservation: media coverage on Iris research
Yuval and Merav interviewed in an article on the Israeli irises, their evolution, ecology and conservation (in Hebrew). Haaretz and The...
Plant Evolutionary Ecology Lab in Ramot website
https://ramot.org/services/the-plant-evolutionary-ecology-laboratory

New paper: Reproductive isolation among the Royal Irises
Osmolovsky, I.; Shifrin, M.; Gamliel, I.; Belmaker, J.; Sapir, Y. 2022. Eco-Geography and Phenology Are the Major Drivers of Reproductive...

New paper: Flower size is plastic with rain, but the signal black patch isn't
Lozada-Gobilard, S., A. Motter, and Y. Sapir. Among-years rain variation is associated with flower size, but not with signal patch size...


New paper: Iris atropurpurea transcriptome
Bar-Lev et al., 2021. De novo transcriptome characterization of Iris atropurpurea (the Royal Iris) and phylogenetic analysis of MADS-box...


Grant proposal funded
DFG (The German Science Foundation) will fund research on the evolution of flower colour polymorphism in two Anemone species. In...