Reproductive effort and sex allocation strategy in Commelina benghalensis L., a common monsoon weed

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 403-413

  Kaul, Veenu ^a   Sharma, Namrata ^a   Koul, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

Author keywords

Breeding system; Chasmogamous; Cleistogamous; Female : male biomass ratio; Output; P O ratio; Sex allocation; Underground

Indexed keywords

POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX ALLOCATION;

COMMELINA; COMMELINA BENGHALENSIS;

EID: 0036918203     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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