Are plants on the edge of their population at a disadvantage when it comes to pollination?
Tag - siring success
William Salter
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
High male fertility in males of a subdioecious shrub
Female reproductive success in females versus hermaphrodites has been well documented. However, documenting a potential advantage in fertility of male versus hermaphrodite individuals in subdioecious species is also...
AoBPLANTS
Density-dependent reproduction regulated by kinship and tree size
Global pollinator declines and habitat fragmentation highlight the critical need to understand reproduction and gene flow across plant populations. Castilla et al. use spatial, reproductive, and population genetic data...
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