Why be a honeyless honey mesquite? Reproduction and mating system of nectarful and nectarless individuals

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 955-963

  Golubov, Jordan ^a,c   Eguiarte, Luis E ^a   Mandujano, María C ^a,c   López Portillo, Jorge ^b   Montaña, Carlos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Floral traits; Leguminosae; Mating systems; Nectar production; Outcrossing rates; Pollination; Polymorphism; Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana; Seed traits

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; NECTAR; REPRODUCTION;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

FABACEAE; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA;

EID: 0033302289     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2656612     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. On the measurement of natural and sexual selection
2. On the function of flowers
3. The evolution of empty flowers
4. Inbreeding depression and its evolutionary consequences
5. Pollen-ovule ratios: A conservative indicator of breeding systems in flowering plants
6. Geitonogamy: The neglected side of selfing
7. Plant size, geitonogamy and seed set in Ipomopsis aggregata
8. Direct and indirect estimates of neighborhood and effective population size in a tropical palm, Astrocaryum mexicanum
9. Genetic structure, outcrossing rate and heterosis in Astrocaryum mexicanum (tropical palm): Implications for evolution and conservation
10. Influence of water/heat stress on flowering and fruiting of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa)
11. Empty flowers
12. Foraging behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) on staghorn sumac [Rhus hirta Sudworth (ex-Typhina L.)]: Differences and dioecy
13. The energy cost of bee pollination for Pontederia cordata (Pontederiaceae)
14. Pollen dispersal and mating patterns in animal-pollinated plants
15. Consistent interplant variation in nectar characteristics of Mirabilis multiflora
16. Fitness consequences of mating system, seed weight and emergence date in a winter annual, Collinsia verna
17. Insects as flower visitors and pollinators
18. Pollination effectiveness and pollination efficiency of insects foraging Prosopis velutina in south-eastern Arizona
19. Mating system parameters and population genetic structure in pioneer populations of Prosopis velutina (Leguminosae)
20. Why plants can be too attractive: A discussion of measures to estimate male fitness
21. Heterozygosity, heterosis and fitness in outbreeding plants
22. A review of floral food deception mimicries with comments on floral mutualism
23. Nectarless honey mesquites
24. Reproductive ecology and inbreeding depression in Opuntia rastrera (Cactaceae) in the Chihuahuan desert: Why are sexually derived recruitments so rare?
25. Effects of floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant size on Ipomopsis aggregata fruit production
26. Proteins I. Isozyme electrophoresis
27. Nectar production rates of Asclepias quadrifolia: Causes and consequences of individual variation
28. What does it cost a plant to produce floral nectar?
29. Pollination ecology of Christmas bells (Blandfordia nobilis Sm.): Effects of adding artificial nectar on pollen removal and seed-set
30. The effective proportion of self-fertilization with consanguineous matings in inbred populations
31. A series of FORTRAN computer programs for estimating plant mating systems
32. Maternal effects in plants
33. Analisis de la distribucion geografica del complejo Prosopis (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae) en Norte America
34. Isoenzymatic studies of alcohol dehydrogenase and glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase in four South American species of Prosopis and their natural hybrids
35. Variaciones de esterasas en poblaciones de Prosopis ruscifolia (Leguminosae)
36. Sap pressure in vascular plants
37. Evolution and diversity of floral rewards
38. Prosopis flowers as a resource
39. The mechanism of sex determination in Rumex hastatulus
40. Isoenzyme variation in species of Prosopis (Leguminosae)
41. Starch gel electrophoresis of ferns: A compilation of grinding buffers, gel and electrode buffers, and staining procedures
42. Photosynthate allocation to floral nectar: A neglected energy investment
43. Seed variation in wild radish: Effect of seed size on components of seedling and adult fitness
44. Floral evolution: Attractiveness to pollinators influences male fitness
45. Repeated-measures analysis: Growth and other time-dependent measures
46. Foraging behavior of pollinators
47. Seed set and seed mass in Ipomopsis aggregata: Variance partitioning and inferences about postpollination selection
48. Beyond floral Batemania: Gender biases in selection for pollination success
49. Plant reproduction and optimal foraging: Experimental nectar manipulations in Delphinium nelsonii
50. Nectar production, flowering phenology and strategies for pollination