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Wansell SNL, Geerts S, Coetzee JA. Where are the seeds? Lack of floral morphs prevent seed production by the tristylous
Pontederia cordata
in South Africa. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e9366. [PMID: 36203638 PMCID: PMC9526117 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Sage N. L. Wansell
- Centre for Biological Control, Department of Botany Rhodes University Makhanda South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Conservation and Marine Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Conservation and Marine Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town South Africa
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Roux C, Pannell JR. The opposing effects of genetic drift and Haldane's sieve on floral-morph frequencies in tristylous metapopulations. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 224:1229-1240. [PMID: 31505031 PMCID: PMC6856859 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Tristyly is a genetic floral polymorphism in which three floral morphs are maintained at equal frequencies by negative frequency-dependent selection on alleles at two interacting loci. Because dominant alleles at these loci are maintained at a lower frequency than their recessive counterparts, they are more likely to be lost by founder events and genetic drift. Here we examine the hypothesis that dominant alleles under negative frequency-dependent selection should also be more likely to re-invade populations than recessive alleles, due to Haldane's Sieve, because recessive alleles not expressed in a heterozygote state cannot benefit from positive selection when rare. We used computer simulations of tristylous metapopulations to verify that Haldane's Sieve acting on migrants into occupied demes can indeed reverse the bias in allele frequencies expected for small single tristylous populations, particularly in situations of rapid population growth following colonisation. This effect is manifest both locally and at the metapopulation level. Our study illustrates the potential effect of Haldane's Sieve in the novel context of an iconic plant sexual-system polymorphism under the influence of metapopulation dynamics.
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- Camille Roux
- CNRSUMR 8198 – Evo‐Eco‐PaleoUniv. LilleLilleF‐59000France
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- Department of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of LausanneLausanne1015Switzerland
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Schoen DJ, Johnson MTJ, Wright SI. The ecology, evolution, and genetics of plant reproductive systems. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 224:999-1004. [PMID: 31631365 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Daniel J Schoen
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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Barranco D, Arroyo J, Santos-Gally R. Avoiding sexual interference: herkogamy and dichogamy in style dimorphic flowers of Narcissus broussonetii (Amaryllidaceae). AOB PLANTS 2019; 11:plz038. [PMID: 31528325 PMCID: PMC6735907 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plz038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Spatial (herkogamy) or temporal (dichogamy) separation of sex organs are mechanisms considered to restrict self-pollination and promote outcrossing. Additionally, avoidance of self-interference is proposed to be the driving force for the evolution of these mechanisms, particularly in self-incompatible species. However, species with anthers and stigmas at different levels may increase the rate of imprecise pollen transfer, resulting in pollen discounting. Non-reciprocal stylar dimorphism has been considered a transitional, unstable stage towards the evolution of reciprocal style dimorphism (distyly), to simultaneously avoid interference and lack of precision. In this study we investigate the spatial and temporal separation of sex organs in a population of the style dimorphic and self-incompatible Narcissus broussonetii and their consequences in the reciprocity between the sex organs of morphs and their fecundity. First, we evaluated the relative growth of sex organs after anthesis. Then, we studied the stigma receptivity along the flower lifespan including its effect on seed production in both morphs. Finally, given the weak reciprocity between the sex organs of morphs of this species, we estimated population genetic diversity parameters in Long- and Short-styled plants to explore differences between them as a result of rates of inbreeding due to different mating strategies. We observed that Long-styled plants and Short-styled plants present different strategies to avoid sexual interference and both of them had negative consequences in the reciprocity between the sex organs of morphs. Long-styled plants exhibited a delay in stigma receptivity and a higher growth rate of the style after anthesis, while Short-styled plants presented higher herkogamy and no delay in stigma receptivity. These findings suggest that the avoidance of self-interference, in stylar dimorphic Narcissus species, seems to be more critical than improving of reciprocity between the sex organs of morphs. This might explain why reciprocal herkogamy (distyly) is rare in the genus.
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- Daniel Barranco
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, apartado, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, apartado, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, apartado, Sevilla, Spain
- CONACyT-Instituto de Ecología, A.P. 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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Baena-Díaz F, Fornoni J, Sosenski P, Weller SG, Domínguez CA. Pollen and stigma size changes during the transition from tristyly to distyly in Oxalis alpina (Oxalidaceae). PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2017; 19:994-1002. [PMID: 28834046 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Pollen and stigma size have the potential to influence male fitness of hermaphroditic plants, particularly in species presenting floral polymorphisms characterised by marked differences in these traits among floral morphs. In this study, we take advantage of the evolutionary transition from tristyly to distyly experienced by Oxalis alpina (Oxalidaceae), and examined whether modifications in the ancillary traits (pollen and stigma size) respond to allometric changes in other floral traits. Also, we tested whether these modifications are in accordance with what would be expected under the hypothesis that novel competitive scenarios (as in distylous-derived reproductive system) exert morph- and whorl-specific selective pressures to match the available stigmas. We measure pollen and stigma size in five populations of O. alpina representing the tristyly-distyly transition. A general reduction in pollen and stigma size occurred along the tristyly-distyly transition, and pollen size from the two anther levels within each morph converged to a similar size that was characterised by whorl-specific changes (increases or decreases) in pollen size of different anthers in each floral type. Overall, results from this study show that the evolution of distyly in this species is characterised not only by changes in sexual organ position and flower size, but also by morph-specific changes in pollen and stigma size. This evidence supports the importance of selection on pollen and stigma size, which increase fitness of remaining morphs following the evolution of distyly, and raises questions to explore on the functional value of pollen size in heterostylous systems under pollen competition.
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- F Baena-Díaz
- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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Stone JL, Thomson JD. THE EVOLUTION OF DISTYLY: POLLEN TRANSFER IN ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. Evolution 2017; 48:1595-1606. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1994.tb02198.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/1993] [Accepted: 01/12/1994] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Judy L. Stone
- Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York Stony Brook New York 11794
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York Stony Brook New York 11794
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O'Neil P, Schmitt J. GENETIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE INDEPENDENT EVOLUTION OF MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERS IN THE TRISTYLOUS PLANT
LYTHRUM SALICARIA. Evolution 2017; 47:1457-1471. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1993.tb02168.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/1992] [Accepted: 03/30/1993] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pamela O'Neil
- Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Brown University Providence Rhode Island 02912
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- Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Brown University Providence Rhode Island 02912
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Cruzan MB, Barrett SCH. CONTRIBUTION OF CRYPTIC INCOMPATIBILITY TO THE MATING SYSTEM OFEICHHORNIA PANICULA TA(PONTEDERIACEAE). Evolution 2017; 47:925-934. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1993.tb01245.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/1991] [Accepted: 11/02/1992] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mitchell B. Cruzan
- Department of Botany; University of Toronto; Toronto Ontario M5S 3B2 Canada
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Kameyama Y, Watanabe M, Kurosawa H, Nishimori T, Matsue D, Takyu M. Seasonal changes in pollen limitation and femaleness along the snowmelt gradient in a distylous alpine herb, Primula modesta. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:5352-5363. [PMID: 30151137 PMCID: PMC6102533 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2015] [Revised: 09/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Flowering phenology of alpine plants is strongly determined by the timing of snowmelt, and the conditions of pollination of widely distributed plants vary greatly during their flowering season. We examined the reproductive success of the distylous alpine herb, Primula modesta, along the snowmelt gradient under natural conditions, and compared it with the result of artificial pollination experiments. In addition, the compositions and visit frequencies of pollinators to the flower of P. modesta were examined during the flowering period. The pin and thrum plants of P. modesta growing at the same site have an equal ability to produce seeds if a sufficient amount of legitimate pollen grains are deposited on the stigma surface. However, under natural conditions, their seed‐set success was often (even if not always) restricted by pollen limitation, and the functional gender of the pin and thrum plants biased to the female and male, respectively, associated with their growing sites. These variations were not ascribed to resource limitation nor biased morph ratio but to the seasonal changes in pollination situations, a replacement of pollinator types from long‐ to short‐tongued pollinators resulted in unidirectional pollen transfer from long stamens (thrum plants) to long styles (pin plants). The functional gender specialization may enhance the evolution of dioecy from heterostyly, but the severe pollen limitation may cause the breakdown of heterostyly into homostyly. To consider the evolutionary pathway of heterostylous plants, an accumulation of the empirical data is required demonstrating how phenological synchrony between plants and pollinators is decided and to what degree this relationship is stable over years, along with estimates of selection and gene flow in individual plants.
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- Yoshiaki Kameyama
- Faculty of Regional Environment Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo 156-8502 Japan
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- Faculty of Regional Environment Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo 156-8502 Japan.,Present address: OTA Floriculture Auction Co., Ltd. Tokyo 143-0001 Japan
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- Faculty of Regional Environment Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo 156-8502 Japan.,Present address: Tamamura-machi Sawa-gun Gunma 370-1105 Japan
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- Faculty of Regional Environment Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo 156-8502 Japan.,Present address: OTA Floriculture Auction Co., Ltd. Tokyo 143-0001 Japan
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- Faculty of Regional Environment Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo 156-8502 Japan.,Present address: Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands Kanagawa 205-0631 Japan
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- Faculty of Regional Environment Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo 156-8502 Japan
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Zhou W, Barrett SCH, Wang H, Li DZ. Reciprocal herkogamy promotes disassortative mating in a distylous species with intramorph compatibility. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2015; 206:1503-1512. [PMID: 25664897 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Accepted: 01/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Mating patterns in heterostylous species with intramorph compatibility have the potential to deviate from symmetrical disassortative mating owing to ecological and reproductive factors influencing pollen dispersal. Here, we investigate potential and realized patterns of mating in distylous Luculia pinceana (Rubiaceae), a species with intramorph compatibility. Our analysis provides an opportunity to test Darwin's hypothesis that reciprocal herkogamy promotes disassortative pollen transfer. We combined measurements of sex-organ reciprocity and pollen production to predict potential pollen transfer and mating patterns in a population from SW China. Marker-based paternity analysis was then used to estimate realized patterns of disassortative and assortative mating at the individual and floral morph levels. Both potential and realized mating patterns indicated a significant component of disassortative mating, satisfying theoretical conditions for the maintenance of floral dimorphism. Levels of assortative mating (37.7%) were significantly lower than disassortative mating (62.3%), but numerous offspring resulting from intramorph mating were detected in the majority of maternal seed families in both floral morphs. Our results provide empirical support for Darwin's cross-promotion hypothesis on the function of reciprocal herkogamy, but indicate that in most heterostylous species strong diallelic incompatibility may be a general requirement for complete disassortative mating.
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- Wei Zhou
- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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Li XX, Zou Y, Xiao CL, Gituru RW, Guo YH, Yang CF. The differential contributions of herkogamy and dichogamy as mechanisms of avoiding self-interference in four self-incompatible Epimedium species. J Evol Biol 2013; 26:1949-58. [PMID: 23848603 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Revised: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Self-interference is one of the most important selective forces in shaping floral evolution. Herkogamy and dichogamy both can achieve reductions in the extent of self-interference, but they may have different roles in minimizing self-interference in a single species. We used four self-incompatible Epimedium species to explore the roles of herkogamy and dichogamy in avoiding self-interference and to test the hypothesis that herkogamy and dichogamy may be separated and become selected preferentially in the taxa. Two species (E. franchetii and E. mikinorii) expressed strong herkogamy and weak protogyny (adichogamy), whereas another two species (E. sutchuenense and E. leptorrhizum) expressed slight herkogamy and partial protandry. Field investigations indicated that there was no physical self-interference between male function and female function regarding pollen removal and pollen deposition in all species. Self-pollination (autonomous or facilitated) was greater in species with slight herkogamy than in those with strong herkogamy. Artificial pollination treatments revealed that self-pollination could reduce outcrossed female fertility in all species, and we found evidence that self-interference reduced seed set in E. sutchuenense and E. leptorrhizum in the field, but not in E. franchetii and E. mikinorii. These results indicate that well-developed herkogamy is more effective compared with dichogamy in avoiding self-interference in the four species. In genus Epimedium, herkogamy instead of dichogamy should be selected preferentially and evolved as an effective mechanism for avoiding self-interference and might not need to evolve linked with dichogamy.
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- X-X Li
- College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Chung MY, Chung JM, López-Pujol J, Park SJ, Chung MG. Genetic diversity in three species of Forsythia (Oleaceae) endemic to Korea: Implications for population history, taxonomy, and conservation. BIOCHEM SYST ECOL 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2012.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Dai C, Galloway LF. Do dichogamy and herkogamy reduce sexual interference in a self‐incompatible species? Funct Ecol 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01795.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904‐4328, USA
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Cohen JI. "A case to which no parallel exists": The influence of Darwin's Different Forms of Flowers. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2010; 97:701-716. [PMID: 21622437 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
PREMISE OF THE STUDY Research on the subject of heterostyly is often traced back to 1877 when Charles Darwin published the landmark book The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. This book synthesized heterostyly research at the time, much of which Darwin conducted, and it continues to be a major contribution to the study of the breeding system. In this book, Darwin discussed the ecology, morph-specific differences, self- and intramorph-incompatibility, evolution and origin, and floral development of heterostyly. Many of the hypotheses he proposed have been and continue to be tested. KEY RESULTS Throughout the 20(th) and 21(st) centuries, researchers have continued to identify new and different morph-specific floral characters, discover the mechanisms that underlie heteromorphic self-incompatibility, use phylogenies to examine the evolution of heterostyly, and determine novel floral developmental patterns in heterostylous species. From all of these studies, we have learned a great deal about the function, evolution, and development of heterostyly. CONCLUSIONS However, almost 150 years after Darwin's publications on the subject of heterostyly, we still have a great deal to learn concerning the breeding system, and new technologies and techniques are allowing for new advances in heterostyly research to occur.
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- James I Cohen
- L. H. Bailey Hortorium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, 412 Mann Library Building, Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
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Sosenski P, Fornoni J, Molina-Freaner FE, Weller SG, Domínguez CA. Changes in sexual organ reciprocity and phenotypic floral integration during the tristyly-distyly transition in Oxalis alpina. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2010; 185:829-840. [PMID: 19968800 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03105.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Although the 6 magnitude and pattern of correlation among floral traits (phenotypic integration) is usually conceived as an adaptation for successful pollination and reproduction, studies on the evolution of plant reproductive systems have generally focused on one or a few characters. If evolutionary transitions between reproductive systems involve morphological floral adjustments, changes in the magnitude and pattern of phenotypic integration of floral traits may be expected. In this study, we focused on the evolutionary dynamics of a complex adaptive trait, the extent of reciprocity (reciprocal placement) among sexual organs in a heterostylous species, and explored the associated changes in phenotypic floral integration during the transition from tristyly to distyly. The extent of reciprocity and both the magnitude and pattern of floral integration were characterized in 12 populations of Oxalis alpina representing the tristyly-distyly gradient. Although the extent of reciprocity increased along the tristyly-distyly transition, the flower size diminished. These adjustments did not affect the magnitude, but did affect the pattern, of floral integration. *Changes in the pattern of floral integration suggested that allometric, functional and pleiotropic relationships among floral traits were affected during this evolutionary transition.
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- Paula Sosenski
- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-275, CP 04510, México Distrito Federal, México
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Klein DE, Freitas L, Da Cunha M. Self-incompatibility in a distylous species of Rubiaceae: is there a single incompatibility response of the morphs? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 22:121-31. [DOI: 10.1007/s00497-009-0097-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2008] [Accepted: 05/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Castro CC, Oliveira PEAM, Alves MC. Breeding system and floral morphometry of distylous Psychotria L. species in the Atlantic rain forest, SE Brazil. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2004; 6:755-760. [PMID: 15570482 DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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General patterns of floral morphology and incompatibility mechanisms have been described for many distylous plants. The absence of these patterns in typically distylous groups, as observed especially in tropical environments, is interpreted as atypical distyly, or as a new reproductive strategy derived from it. Data are presented here on the morphological and compatibility relations between floral morphs of four Psychotria dimorphic species in the Atlantic rain forest in SE Brazil: Psychotria jasminoides, P. birotula, P. mapourioides, and P. pubigera. When significant differences were found, floral parts were larger in thrum flowers. Results of controlled crosses showed that most incompatible pollen tubes were arrested in the stigma, and only in a low proportion in the upper parts of the style. We conclude that, at the study site, the majority and most important morphological and mating features of typical distyly seem to be conserved in P. jasminoides and P. mapourioides, which presented reciprocal herkogamy, self and intramorph incompatibility, and a balanced morph ratio in the population. Typical distyly in P. birotula is supported by floral morphology, pollen tube data and morph ratio and, in P. pubigera, only by floral morphology and pollen tube data.
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- C C Castro
- Lab. Ecologia e Restauração Florestal, Dept. Ciências Biológicas, Esalq-Usp, Av. Pádua Dias 11, CP09, 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
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Cesaro AC, Barrett SCH, Maurice S, Vaissiere BE, Thompson JD. An experimental evaluation of self-interference in Narcissus assoanus: functional and evolutionary implications. J Evol Biol 2004; 17:1367-76. [PMID: 15525421 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00767.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Floral traits that reduce self-pollination in hermaphroditic plants have usually been interpreted as mechanisms that limit the genetic consequences of self-fertilization. However, the avoidance of sexual conflict between female and male function (self-interference) may also represent an important selection pressure for the evolution of floral traits, particularly in self-incompatible species. Here, we use experimental manipulations to investigate self-interference in Narcissus assoanus, a self-incompatible species with a stigma-height dimorphism in which the degree of spatial separation between sex organs (herkogamy) differs strikingly between the long- and short-styled morphs (hereafter L- and S-morphs). We predicted that weak herkogamy in the L-morph would cause greater self-pollination and hence self-interference. Experimental self-pollination reduced seed set when it occurred prior to, or simultaneously with, cross-pollination in the L-morph, but only if it occurred prior to cross-pollination in the S-morph. In the field, autonomous self-pollination was greater in the L-morph than the S-morph, but we found no evidence that self-interference reduced maternal or paternal fitness in either morph. One-day-old flowers of the L-morph have reduced stigma receptivity and hence exhibit protandry, whereas stigma receptivity and anther dehiscence are concurrent in the S-morph. This suggests that the two style morphs have alternative strategies for reducing self-interference: dichogamy in the L-morph and herkogamy in the S-morph. These results provide insight into the mechanisms that reduce sexual conflict in hermaphrodite plants and are of significance for understanding the evolution and maintenance of sexual polymorphisms.
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- A C Cesaro
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Ornelas JF, Jiménez L, González C, Hernández A. Reproductive ecology of distylous Palicourea Padifolia (Rubiaceae) in a tropical montane cloud forest. I. Hummingbirds' effectiveness as pollen vectors. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2004; 91:1052-1060. [PMID: 21653461 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.7.1052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The adaptiveness of distyly has been typically investigated in terms of its female function, specifically pollen receipt. However, pollen loads on stigmas can only provide moderate support for Darwin's hypothesis of the promotion of legitimate crosses. To determine the effectiveness of hummingbirds as pollen vectors between floral morphs and the consequences in terms of male (pollen transfer) and female function (pollen receipt) in Palicourea padifolia (Rubiaceae), floral visitors, their foraging modes, and temporal patterns of floral visitation were observed and documented. Differences in pollen and stigma morphology, pollen flow, rates of pollen deposition, and/or stigmatic pollen loads were then evaluated for their contribution toward differences in reproductive output between floral morphs. A pollination experiment with stuffed hummingbirds that varied in bill size was done to evaluate the contribution of bill variation toward differences between floral morphs in pollen receipt and pollen transfer and female reproductive output. Anthers of long-styled flowers contained significantly more and smaller pollen grains than those of short-styled flowers, independently of corolla and anther lengths. The shape and orientation of the stigma lobes differed between morphs and were significantly longer among short-styled flowers. Hummingbird visitation rates did not differ significantly between floral morphs, and foraging movements from focal plants towards neighboring plants were independent of floral morph. Stigmatic pollen loads under field conditions and those after controlled hummingbird visitation, along with rates of pollen accumulation through the day indicated that stigmas of short-styled flowers receive proportionately more legitimate (intermorph) pollen grains than did those of long-styled flowers. However, the species of hummingbird was marginally significant in explaining variation in pollen deposition on stigmas. Lastly, intermorph pollinations of P. padifolia resulted in significant differences in fruit production between floral morphs, independent of pollination treatment and pollinator species; short-styled flowers proportionately developed almost twice the number of fruits developed by long-styled flowers.
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- Juan Francisco Ornelas
- Departamento de Ecología y Comportamiento Animal, Instituto de Ecología, AC, Apartado Postal 63, Xalapa 91070, Veracruz, Mexico
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Lau P, Bosque C. Pollen flow in the distylous Palicourea fendleri (Rubiaceae): an experimental test of the Disassortative Pollen Flow Hypothesis. Oecologia 2003; 135:593-600. [PMID: 12684863 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1216-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2002] [Accepted: 02/03/2003] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The Disassortative Pollen Flow Hypothesis proposed by Darwin postulates that the relative position of anthers and stigmas in distylous flowers enhances pollen flow between flowers of different morphs (legitimate pollination), in comparison to flow between flowers of the same morph (illegitimate pollination). In order to test this hypothesis, we measured pollen transport, mediated by a trained Copper-rumped Hummingbird (Amazilia tobaci), between flowers of the distylous Palicourea fendleri under laboratory conditions. In individual tests, we offered to the hummingbird a pollen donor flower and two emasculated recipient flowers in a controlled sequence. After each foraging bout, we counted the number of pollen grains transported from the donor flower to the stigmas of both recipient flowers. In agreement with Darwin's hypothesis, we found that hummingbirds transport pollen of "pin" flowers in significantly higher numbers to legitimate "thrum" stigmas, even if previously visiting a "pin" flower. However, "thrum" pollen was deposited in greater numbers on illegitimate "thrum" stigmas. We interpret this asymmetry largely as the consequence of floral morphology; pollen flow was greater between anthers and stigmas that exhibit greater spatial matching. In P. fendleri, the position of floral organs along the corolla tube does not always precisely correspond. In our experimental system, the probability that the pollinator extracts a pollen grain from the anther and the probability of self-pollination were both dependent on the type of floral morph. We discuss the relevance of the latter findings in relation to other studies of pollen flow in heterostylous species.
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- Pablo Lau
- Dept. Biología de Organismos, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89.000, 1080, Caracas, Venezuela.
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Pailler T, Maurice S, Thompson JD. Pollen transfer patterns in a distylous plant with overlapping pollen-size distributions. OIKOS 2002. [DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.990211.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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ALVES DOS SANTOS ISABEL. Flower-visiting bees and the breakdown of the tristylous breeding system of Eichhornia azurea (Swartz) Kunth (Pontederiaceae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2002. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00122.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Floral hermaphroditism results in conflicts and compromise in the parental roles of plants during pollination and mating. A potential cost of hermaphroditism is sexual interference between maternal and paternal functions resulting in gamete wastage and reduced fitness. Sexual interference may or may not be associated with self-pollination. In cases where self-pollination occurs, ovule or pollen discounting may reduce mating opportunities. Here I describe forms of sexual interference in flowering plants, distinguishing whether physical or biochemical interactions are involved and whether fitness costs associated with gamete wastage arise from intra-floral versus inter-floral processes. I review the limited experimental evidence for interference between sex functions and evaluate the hypothesis that some floral adaptations usually interpreted as anti-selfing mechanisms may serve an alternative function in reducing mating costs arising from this form of sexual conflict.
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- S C H Barrett
- Department of Botany, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2.
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Baker AM, Thompson JD, Barrett SC. Evolution and maintenance of stigma-height dimorphism in Narcissus. II. Fitness comparisons between style morphs. Heredity (Edinb) 2000; 84 ( Pt 5):514-24. [PMID: 10849076 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00686.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Populations of the insect-pollinated geophytes Narcissus assoanus and N. dubius (Amaryllidaceae) are commonly dimorphic for stigma height. An extensive survey of populations of the two species in SW France revealed a wide range of style-morph frequencies, particularly populations with significantly more long-styled than short-styled plants. Here we employ experimental and theoretical approaches to investigate potential selective mechanisms governing the variation in style-morph frequencies. Controlled pollination of both species demonstrated that N. assoanus is moderately self-sterile whereas N. dubius is highly self-compatible. Both intra- and intermorph crosses of N. assoanus were equally fertile, indicating that the species does not exhibit heteromorphic incompatibility. Estimates of female fertility (fruit- and seed-set) and multilocus estimates of outcrossing using allozyme markers provided no evidence of morph-specific differences in maternal components of reproductive success in natural populations of the two species. This result suggested that differences between the morphs in male fertility may be largely responsible for the observed morph-ratio variation. To investigate this hypothesis we developed a mating model that incorporates the genetics of stigma-height dimorphism and contrasting rates of assortative and disassortative mating in the style morphs. Simulation results demonstrated that stigma-height dimorphism will always be maintained when levels of disassortative mating are greater than assortative mating, and that the observed L-biased populations in Narcissus spp. probably result from greater levels of assortative mating in this morph in comparison with the S-morph.
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- A M Baker
- Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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The comparative biology of pollination and mating in flowering plants. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1997. [DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1996.0110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The diversification of many flowering plant families has been attributed to adaptive radiation of pollination and mating systems accompanying changes in ecology and life history. Reproductive traits in seed plants therefore provide a potentially rich source of diversity for comparative and phylogenetic studies. Here we address three topics in reproductive biology: floral allocation strategies, mating systems and life history, and the origin of complex reproductive syndromes using various comparative methods. Results from these studies generally complement and inform those obtained from previous microevolutionary work at the population level. Historical inferences concerning reproductive character evolution in some taxa can be hampered by topological uncertainties in tree reconstruction and a lack of resolution in molecular phylogenies. Future insights into the ecology and evolution of plant reproductive adaptations using comparative approaches will require well resolved phylogenies, particularly at the species level.
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Eckert CG, Manicacci D, Barrett SCH. Frequency-dependent selection on morph ratios in tristylous Lythrum salicaria (Lythraceae). Heredity (Edinb) 1996. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Eckert CG, Barrett SCH. Post-pollination mechanisms and the maintenance of outcrossing in self-compatible, tristylous, Decodon verticillatus (Lythraceae). Heredity (Edinb) 1994. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1994.56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Bertin RI. INCIDENCE OF MONOECY AND DICHOGAMY IN RELATION TO SELF-FERTILIZATION IN ANGIOSPERMS. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 1993; 80:557-560. [PMID: 30139145 DOI: 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1993.tb13840.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/1992] [Accepted: 12/21/1992] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The evolution of many floral traits, including monoecy and dichogamy, has been attributed to selection for avoidance of self-fertilization. If this explanation is correct, monoecy and dichogamy should be uncommon among self-incompatible species because physiological barriers prevent self-fertilization in such species. In fact, self-fertility was independent of sexual system in a sample of 588 hermaphroditic and monoecious angiosperms. Overall, dichogamy was also equally common among self-incompatible and self-compatible species. When the different forms of dichogamy were analyzed separately, only intrafloral protogyny was associated with self-compatibility. This form of dichogamy is less common among angiosperms than intrafloral protandry, which is probably less effective at reducing self-fertilization. Thus, avoidance of self-fertilization has probably been less important in the evolution of monoecy and most forms of dichogamy than other factors, such as avoidance of pollen-pistil interference, and flexibility of resource allocation to male and female functions.
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- Robert I Bertin
- Department of Biology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610
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Heterostylous Genetic Polymorphisms: Model Systems for Evolutionary Analysis. EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF HETEROSTYLY 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-86656-2_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Morgan MT, Barrett SCH. Outcrossing rates and correlated mating within a population of Eichhornia paniculata (Pontederiaceae). Heredity (Edinb) 1990. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1990.33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Barrett SCH, Brown AHD, Shore JS. Disassortative mating in tristylous Eichhornia paniculata (Pontederiaceae). Heredity (Edinb) 1987. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1987.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Feinsinger P, Busby WH. Pollen carryover: experimental comparisons between morphs of Palicourea lasiorrachis (Rubiaceae), a distylous, bird-pollinated, tropical treelet. Oecologia 1987; 73:231-235. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00377512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/1986] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Wolfe LM, Barrett SCH. Pollinator foraging behavior and pollen collection on the floral morphs of tristylous Pontederia cordata L. Oecologia 1987; 74:347-351. [PMID: 28312471 DOI: 10.1007/bf00378928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/1987] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The foraging behavior of the pollinators of tristylous Pontederia cordata was studied to determine if differences in floral morphology would lead to preferential visitation of the floral morphs. Although nectar production is not different in the three floral morphs, differences in the production and size of pollen grains produced by the three anther levels results in the morphs offering variable amounts of resources to pollen-collecting insects. Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) and the solitary bee Melissodes apicata used P. cordata primarily as a nectar source and therefore did not seem to exhibit any morph preference. In contrast, honeybees visited flowers mainly for pollen and preferred to forage on long-level anthers of the short-and mid-styled morphs. An analysis of the composition of corbicular pollen loads indicated that, relative to the frequency of production in the population: 1) honeybees collected an excess of pollen from long-level anthers; 2) bumblebees collected the three types of pollen without any apparent preference; and 3) M. apicata preferentially collected pollen from the short-level anthers - presumably because their proboscides are modified by the presence of tiny hairs. The results suggest that P. cordata in Ontario is serviced by a diverse, unspecialized pollinator fauna which is not co-adapted to the tristylous floral polymorphism.
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- L M Wolfe
- Department of Botany, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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