Pollen tube competition as a mechanism of prezygotic reproductive isolation between Mimulus nasutus and its presumed progenitor M. guttatus

New Phytologist

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 471-478

  Diaz, A ^a,b   Macnair, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mimulus; Pollen competition; Pollen tube growth; Prezygotic barriers; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; MIMULUS; OUTCROSSING; POLLEN GRAIN; POLLEN PISTIL INTERACTION; POLLEN TUBE GROWTH; POLLEN TUBE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

COMPETITION; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION;

MIMULUS GUTTATUS; MIMULUS NASUTUS;

EID: 0033497643     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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