Claim · model-written summary
Other sugars occurred in traces.
- Taxon
- Arceuthobium abietinum Engelm.
Arceuthobium abietinume1 - Outcome
- Traces of other sugarse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Traces of other sugars were also present”
e1“Arceuthobium abietinum Engelm.”
Title
Analysis of sugars in dwarf mistletoe nectar
J. W. Brewer; K. J. Collyard; C. E. Lott Jr. Canadian Journal of Botany 1974. doi:10.1139/b74-328
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Flowers produced nectar droplets of 0.24 μliter.
- Observation Nectar contained 58–92% total solids.
- Observation Glucose made up 48% of nectar sugars.
- Observation Fructose made up 39% of nectar sugars.
- Observation Sucrose made up 11% of nectar sugars.
- Mechanism The authors suggested concentrated nectar probably attracts insect pollinators and may help mistletoe spread.