@article {1920,
	title = {Does temperature stress induce nectar secretion in Mediterranean plants ?},
	journal = {New Phytologist},
	volume = {133},
	year = {1996},
	month = {1996///},
	pages = {513 - 518},
	address = {Affiliation: Botanical Institute, Laboratory of Systematics, Catholic University of Leuven, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven), Belgium},
	abstract = {We studied the effect of temperature on nectar secretion in Thymus capitatus, a typical labiate of phrygana (i.e. the garrigue of the East Mediterranean Basin). Experiments were carried out at controlled temperatures in a climatic chamber. We measured the nectar standing crop of the flowers at the end of the first day of their anthesis. All nectar values (i.e. volume per flower, sugar content and concentration) increased with temperature up to 38 {\textdegree}C, as long as the plants were not water stressed. However, in the open and under normal temperate conditions (i.e. at relatively low temperatures) nectar secretion depended more on changes in solar irradiance than on temperature. Under the same conditions, nectar secretion in Ballota acetabulosa, a species that is sympatric and coflowering with T. capitatus, was affected neither by light nor temperature. Since in the wild these two species are found in different microhabitats (full sun and shade, for T. capitatus and B. acetabulosa, respectively), we attribute the differences we observed to the differential natural adaptation of the plants to these factors. We conclude that T. capitatus is very well adapted to the Mediterranean conditions. By performing optimally as a nectar source at high temperatures, it can support a very large insect fauna that visits its flowers for nectar. It is in fact a temperature-induced cornucopian species.},
	keywords = {Ballota acetabulosa, Mediterranean plants, Nectar secretion, Temperature effect, Thymus capitatus},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/scopus/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0030470032\&partnerID=40\&rel=R6.5.0},
	author = {Petanidou, T and Smets, E}
}
@article {1812,
	title = {SOME ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE TAXONOMY OF LABIATAE ESSENTIAL OILS AND RUSTS},
	journal = {New Phytologist},
	volume = {69},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006///},
	pages = {487 - 492},
	abstract = {Essential oils extracted from twenty-two genera of Labiatae have been examined by gas-liquid chromatography. The results support the taxonomic suggestion that there are two major series of genera: the one (GROUP B, El-Gazzar \& Watson 1970) oil-rich},
	url = {http://muse.lib.auth.gr:9797/com/blackwell-synergy/?MuseHost=www.blackwell-synergy.com\&MuseFirst=1\&prevSearch=allfield:(thymus+AND+(labiatae+OR+lamiaceae))\&StartMuseCookie=I2KBRCK=1;+path=/;+SERVER=10.0.20.25:8080;+path=/;+JSESSIONID=gbdwEZ34tGZWt4uGDaLvr},
	author = {EL-GAZZAR, A. and WATSON, L.}
}
@article {1813,
	title = {A TAXONOMIC STUDY OF LABIATAE AND RELATED GENERA},
	journal = {New Phytologist},
	volume = {69},
	year = {1969},
	month = {1969///},
	pages = {451 - 486},
	abstract = {Extensive comparative anatomical and morphological observations have been made on 400 species (138 genera) of Labiatae and Verbenaceae sensu lato. Two computational analyses, very different and calling for different coded interpretations of the da},
	url = {http://muse.lib.auth.gr:9797/com/blackwell-synergy/?MuseHost=www.blackwell-synergy.com\&MuseFirst=1\&prevSearch=allfield:(thymus+AND+(labiatae+OR+lamiaceae))\&StartMuseCookie=I2KBRCK=1;+path=/;+SERVER=10.0.20.25:8080;+path=/;+JSESSIONID=gbdwEZ34tGZWt4uGDaLvr},
	author = {EL-GAZZAR, A. and WATSON, L.}
}
