Identification of traits affecting pollen performance
Tag - pollen competition
Rachel Shekar
Computer simulation highlights the importance of pollinator diversity
Sharing pollinators can cause problems when pollen competes for transport
Alun Salt
Botanists find out who’s the daddy
Growing a fruit is only one way of passing your genes on to the next generation if you’re a plant. You could also send pollen to another plant. But what factors influence siring success? Dorothy Christopher and...
Fi Gennu
Differential selection on pollen and pistil traits in relation to pollen competition in the context of a sexual conflict over timing of stigma receptivity
Sexual conflict and its evolutionary consequences are understudied in plants, but the theory of sexual conflict may help explain how selection generates and maintains variability in both plants and animals. In a recent...
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Heritability of interactive pollen–pistil traits
In Collinsia heterophylla, a mixed-mating species with delayed stigma receptivity, there is a potential for a sexual conflict over timing of stigma receptivity. Madjidian et al. use experimental crosses and perform...
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