Floral Characterization of Pomegranate Genotypes to Improve Hybridization Efficiency [PDF]
Plants, 2022 Pomegranate (Punica granatum) has staminate (male), androgynous (hermaphrodite), and intermediate flower types. Floral characterization is difficult for breeding efficiency across many pomegranate genotypes in Pakistan, which is essential for pomegranate
Sufian Ikram +7 more
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FlowerMate: Multidimensional reciprocity and inaccuracy indices for style‐polymorphic plant populations [PDF]
Applications in Plant SciencesPremise Heterostyly in plants promotes pollen transfer between floral morphs, because female and male sex organs are located at roughly reciprocal heights within the flowers of each morph.
Violeta Simón‐Porcar +3 more
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Convergent evolutionary patterns of heterostyly across angiosperms support the pollination-precision hypothesis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSince the insights by Charles Darwin, heterostyly, a floral polymorphism with morphs bearing stigmas and anthers at reciprocal heights, has become a model system for the study of natural selection.
Violeta Simón-Porcar +6 more
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A Global Analysis of the Distribution Patterns of Style‐Length Polymorphisms Across Angiosperms [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnraveling the evolutionary and biogeographical factors that drive the widespread occurrence of outcrossing mechanisms in plants is key to understanding their prevalence.
Letícia Rodrigues Novaes +3 more
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Does the occurence of homostyly necessarily accompany the breakdown of heteromorphic incompatibility system? [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionHeterostyly is a genetic polymorphism that facilitates precise pollen transfer through reciprocal herkogamy. The loss or variation of reciprocal herkogamy is usually accompanied by the breakdown of heteromorphic incompatibility system ...
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The S-Gene YUC6 Pleiotropically Determines Male Mating Type and Pollen Size in Heterostylous Turnera (Passifloraceae): A Novel Neofunctionalization of the YUCCA Gene Family [PDF]
Plants, 2022 In heterostylous, self-incompatible Turnera species, a member of the YUCCA gene family, YUC6, resides at the S-locus and has been hypothesized to determine the male mating type.
Paige M. Henning +2 more
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Comprehensive transcriptomic profiling reveals complex molecular mechanisms in the regulation of style-length dimorphism in Guettarda speciosa (Rubiaceae), a species with “anomalous” distyly [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 BackgroundThe evolution of heterostyly, a genetically controlled floral polymorphism, has been a hotspot of research since the 19th century. In recent years, studies on the molecular mechanism of distyly (the most common form of heterostyly) revealed an ...
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Asymmetrical disassortative pollination mediated by long‐/short‐tongued pollinators in a distylous Limonium myrianthum (Plumbaginaceae) with a short corolla tubular small flower [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIn heterostylous plants, short‐tongued pollinators are often ineffective/inefficient owing to the limitations imposed by a long corolla tube. However, it is unclear how disassortative pollen transfer is achieved in small flowers.
Fangfang Jiao, Xiaowei Wang, Aiqin Zhang
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Floral Color Change Mediated by Pollen Input–Output and Its Manipulation of Pollinator Foraging Behavior in Heterostylous Plant Arnebia guttata (Boraginaceae) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe phenomenon of floral color change (FCC) in angiosperms is frequently associated with pollination events. However, research on triggers, functions, and ecological effects of FCC still remains confined to phenomenological speculation or model‐based ...
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Diverse mating consequences of the evolutionary breakdown of the sexual polymorphism heterostyly [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Dianxiang Zhang +2 more
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