Fruit and seed production in relation to pollination and resources in bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Oecologia

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 349-360

  Corbet, Sarah A ^a  

^a Zoology Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fruit development; Ovule position; Pollinator limitation; Resource limitation; Seed development

Indexed keywords

BLUEBELL; FRUIT PRODUCTION; POLLINATION; RESOURCE LIMITATION; SEED PRODUCTION;

HYACINTHOIDES NON-SCRIPTA;

EID: 0031978701     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050457     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Beattie AJ (1971) A technique for the study of insect-home pollen. Panpacific Entomol 47: 82
2. Blackman GE, Rutter AJ (1954) Endymion Dum. J Ecol 42: 629-638
3. Bushnell JW (1920) The fertility and fruiting habit in Cucurbita. Proc Am Hort Soc 17: 47-51
4. Campbell DR, Halama KJ (1993) Resource and pollen limitations to lifetime seed production in a natural plant population. Ecology 74: 1043-1051
5. Casper BB, Niesenbaum RA (1993) Pollen versus resource limitation of seed production: a reconsideration. Cur Sci 65: 210-214
6. Corbet SA, Osborne JL (1997) Techniques in the study of insect pollination. In: Dent DR, Walton MP (eds) Methods in agricultural and ecological entomology. CAB International, Wallingford, pp 221-241
7. Crawley MJ (1993) GLIM for ecologists. Blackwell, Oxford
8. Diggle PK (1993) Architectural effects and the interpretation of patterns of fruit and seed develpment. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 26: 531-552
9. Fenster CB (1991) Effect of male pollen donor and female seed parent on allocation of resources to developing seeds and fruit in Chamaecrista fasciculata (Leguminosae). Am J Bot 78: 13-23
10. Haig D, Westoby M (1988) On limits to seed production. Am Nat 131: 757-759
11. Harder LD, Barrett SCH (1996) Pollen dispersal and mating patterns in animal-pollinated plants. In: Lloyd, DG, Barrett SCH (eds) Floral biology. Chapman & Hall, New York, pp 140-190
12. Hossaert M, Valéro M (1988) Effect of ovule position in the pod on patterns of seed formation in two species of Lathyrus (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Am J Bot 75: 1714-1731
13. Kearns CA, Inouye DW (1993) Techniques for pollination biologists. University Press of Colorado, Niwot
14. Lee TD (1988) Patterns of fruit and seed production. In: Lovett Doust J, Lovett Doust L (eds) Plant reproductive ecology. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 179-202
15. Lee TD, Bazzaz FA (1986) Maternal regulation of fecundity: non-random ovule abortion in Cassia fasciculata Michx. Oecologia 68: 459-465
16. Lloyd DG (1980) Sexual strategies in plants. I. An hypothesis of serial adjustment of maternal investment during one reproductive session. New Phytol 86: 69-79
17. Merryweather J, Fitter A (1995a) Arbuscular mycorrhiza and phosphorus as controlling factors in the life history of the obligately mycorrhizal Hyacinthoides non-scripta. New Phytol 29: 629-636
18. Merryweather J, Fitter A (1995b) Phosphorus and carbon budgets: mycorrhizal contribution in Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard ex Rothm. under natural conditions. New Phytol 129: 619-627
19. Nakamura RR (1988) Seed abortion and seed size variation within fruits of Phaseolus vulgaris: pollen donor and resource limitation effects. Am J Bot 75: 1003-1010
20. Oheso JR (1993) Selective fruit and seed maturation in Asphodelus albus Miller (Liliaceae). Oecologia 93: 564-570
21. O'Donnell ME, Bawa KS (1993) Gamete selection and patterns of ovule and seed abortion. Curr Sci 65: 214-219
22. Ramsey M (1995) Causes and consequences of seasonal variation in pollen limitation of seed production in Blandfordia grandiflora (Liliaceae). Oikos 73: 49-58
23. Stephenson AG (1981) Flower and fruit abortion: proximate causes and ultimate functions. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 12: 253-279
24. Wilson JY (1959) Verification of the breeding system in the bluebell Endymion nonscriptus (L.) Garcke. Ann Bot 23: 201-203
25. Zimmerman M, Pyke GH (1988) Reproduction in Polemonium: assessing the factors limiting seed set. Am Nat 131: 723-738