Bract size affects resource availability and fruit set in a hummingbird-pollinated plant with distyly polymorphism. [PDF]
Plant Biol (Stuttg)In Psychotria poeppigiana, larger bracts honestly signal greater nectar availability but have higher mortality, while smaller bracts produce more fruit, revealing a surprising trade‐off and hints of sexual role specialization in this distylous species. Abstract Plants can use non‐floral signals to advertise the presence of resources to pollinators. The
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2022 Distyly is a floral polymorphism with reciprocal placement of male and female structures, heteromorphic self-incompatibility, and other ancillary traits. However, breeding system breakdowns and loss of polymorphism are common.
Ebenézer B. Rodrigues +3 more
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Multiple Glacial Refugia and Complex Postglacial Dynamics of <i>Primula sikkimensis</i> (Primuaceae) in the Heterogeneous Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. [PDF]
Ecol EvolPrimula sikkimensis persisted in distinct glacial refugia within the Hengduan Mountains and eastern Himalayas during the Last Glacial Maximum. Subsequent postglacial range expansions onto the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau were accompanied by secondary contact and interspecific hybridization, collectively enhancing genetic diversity and adaptive capacity. These
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2022 Distyly is a floral polymorphism that promotes cross-pollination through precise pollination. Psychotria is a mostly tropical genus of distylous Rubiaceae.
Renata Trevizan +4 more
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Cordia subcordata (Boraginaceae), a distylous species on oceanic coral islands, is self-compatible and pollinated by a passerine bird [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Background and aims – Distyly is usually rare on oceanic islands, which is probably due to the difficulty for distylous plants to colonize those islands.
Xiangping Wang +3 more
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Genetic Causes and Genomic Consequences of Breakdown of Distyly in Linum trigynum. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2023 Abstract Distyly is an iconic floral polymorphism governed by a supergene, which promotes efficient pollen transfer and outcrossing through reciprocal differences in the position of sexual organs in flowers, often coupled with heteromorphic self-incompatibility.
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Discovery of distyly in Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) [PDF]
American Journal of Botany, 2000 There has been disagreement concerning the nature of sexual polymorphisms in Narcissus, a genus of insect‐pollinated geophytes native to the Mediterranean. The existence of trimorphic heterostyly in the genus has recently been confirmed, but the occurrence of distyly remains enigmatic.
J, Arroyo, S C, Barrett
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Crop yield mediated by honeybees in a star fruit orchard exhibiting atypical distyly
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2021 The dependence of commercial crops on pollinators is closely related to their reproductive strategies and has direct impacts on production yields. Fruit production of Averrhoa carambola, the star fruit, is highly dependent on bee pollination.
Reinaldo Rodrigo Novo +5 more
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Role of Pollinators in the Evolution of Dioecy from Distyly [PDF]
Evolution, 1980 Distylous flowering plant species are characterized by having two types of individuals that bear different forms of flowers: "pin" flowers with long styles and short stamens and "thrum" flowers with short styles and long stamens (Darwin, 1877; Frankel and Galun, 1977).
Beach, J. H., Bawa, K. S.
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Phosphoproteomic analysis of distylous Turnera subulata identifies pathways related to endoreduplication that correlate with reciprocal herkogamy. [PDF]
Am J BotAbstract Premise A multi‐omic approach was used to explore proteins and networks hypothetically important for establishing filament dimorphisms in heterostylous Turnera subulata (Sm.) as an exploratory method to identify genes for future empirical research.
Henning PM, Minkoff BB, Sussman MR.
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