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...
Tag - sexual selection
Fi Gennu
Male reproductive success and floral trait evolution in animal-pollinated plants
More than 85% of flowering plant species require the services of foraging animal pollinators to transfer male gametes (pollen) to stigmas of potential mates. The vast majority (95-99%) of pollen grains produced by a...
Alex Assiry
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...
AoBPLANTS
Defence dichotomy: coping with herbivores in air and water (Review)
Plant defence against herbivores is a crucial theme in the evolution of both plants and animals, yet it is expressed very differently in water and on land. Spines, hairs, and distance signalling are common in land...
botanyone
Sexual selection, pollinators and floral dimorphism
Sexual selection mediated by animal pollinators can potentially drive dimorphism in plant populations with unisexual flowers. Yakimowski et al. compare variation in floral traits between populations of Sagittaria...
