Intrinsic cost of delayed flowering in annual plants: Negative correlation between flowering time and reproductive effort

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 101-107

  Kudoh, Hiroshi ^a   Kachi, Naoki ^b   Kawano, Shoichi ^c   Ishiguri, Yoshio ^d  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Graph model; Meristem limitation; Morphological constraints; Optimal flowering time; Reproductive efforts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036966730     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-1984.2002.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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