Identification of Potential Metabolites Mediating Bird’s Selective Feeding on Prunus mira Flowers

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Photos of the Prunus mira flowers. (a) The bird-preferred flowers (FG) on the tree, (b) Turdus ruficollis feeding on P. mira flowers, (c) a high number of FG fed by birds dropped off the tree, (d) the avoided flowers (BFT) by birds on the tree, (e) wind which causes BFT flowers to drop off the tree but the ovary is intact, and (f) FG flowers with destroyed ovary.

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