Pollen Limitation and Reproductive Assurance in the Flora of the Coastal Atacama Desert [PDF]
International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2010 Pollen limitation (PL) in plant populations is supposed to be particularly strong in variable pollinator environments. Here, we examined the extent of PL in the coastal Atacama Desert, where low and unpredictable rainfall drives large interannual variation in plant cover and pollinator abundances.
Alejandra V Gonzalez, Fernanda Perez
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Observations of Simultaneous Sperm Release and Larval Planulation Suggest Reproductive Assurance in the Coral Pocillopora acuta [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Despite being an extensively studied group of corals, the reproductive biology of the scleractinian genus Pocillopora remains a mystery. Pocillopora acuta has been proposed to exhibit a mixed reproductive mode, sexually producing gametes (sperm and eggs)
Hillary A. Smith +6 more
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Disentangling the role of herkogamy, dichogamy and pollinators in plant reproductive assurance
Plant Ecology and Diversity, 2018 Background: Autonomous selfing can be favoured by reduced floral herkogamy, dichogamy and pollinator visitation.
Lorena Ashworth
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Unlocking tropical adaptation: novel flowering time genes implicate JA and ROS signaling in maize [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Tropical maize germplasm offers a valuable resource of genetic diversity for temperate maize breeding programs but its utilization is often constrained by poor flowering adaptation under long-day photoperiods, which act as a major adaptive ...
Jiaguo Zhu +6 more
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Reproductive assurance weakens pollinator-mediated selection on flower size in an annual mixed-mating species. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2019 Background and Aims In animal-pollinated plants, direct and indirect selection for large and small flowers in predominantly outcrossing and selfing species, respectively, is a common consequence of pollen limitation (PL).
Teixido AL, Aizen MA.
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Phylogenetic Relatedness Determines Heterospecific Pollen–Pistil Compatibility and Reproductive Outcome in the Apocarpous Species Sagittaria trifolia (Alismataceae) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionPollinator sharing among coflowering plants can reduce plant fitness through heterospecific pollen (HP) deposition. Compatible HP is expected to cause stronger reproductive interference, but the factors determining HP–pistil compatibility and its ...
Si‐Yan Zou +5 more
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High lifetime inbreeding depression counteracts the reproductive assurance benefit of selfing in a mass-flowering shrub. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2014 Background Decreases in mate and/or pollinator availability would be expected to affect the selective pressure on plant mating systems. An increase in self-fertilization may evolve to compensate for the negative effects of pollination failure.
Delmas CE +3 more
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EFFECTS OF REPRODUCTIVE COMPENSATION, GAMETE DISCOUNTING AND REPRODUCTIVE ASSURANCE ON MATING-SYSTEM DIVERSITY IN HERMAPHRODITES [PDF]
Evolution, 2007 Hermaphroditism allows considerable scope for contributing genes to subsequent generations through various mixtures of selfed and outcrossed offspring. The fitness consequences of different family compositions determine the evolutionarily stable mating ...
Lawrence D. Harder +2 more
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Does reproductive assurance explain the incidence of polyploidy in plants and animals? [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2020 Jonathan P Spoelhof +2 more
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National Journal of Community Medicine, 2019 Introduction: Globally ‘quality health care’ and particularly the domain of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services attract substantial attention. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) implemented Quality Assurance in Reproductive and Child Health
Prakash P Doke, Abhijit R Khanvilkar
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