Life history theory predicts that plants in adverse environments for juvenile performance start reproduction at a smaller size and exhibit higher reproductive allocation compared to their counterparts in more favourable...
Tag - asexual reproduction
botanyone
Female sterility and hermaphrodites coexist in Cardamine amara
Tedder et al. report a new putative case of androdioecy in Swiss populations of the Arabidopsis relative, Cardamine amara (Brassicaceae).
Plants, grafty little critters…
Plants seem to have hit upon an asexual method that can give rise to new species.
Nigel Chaffey
Apomixis and reticulate evolution in Aspleniaceae
Ferns have the highest proportion of apomictic species in all plant groups, but the reasons for this are unclear. Dyer et al. determine the reproductive mode of species in the Asplenium monanthes fern complex, and use...
