Nectar secretion strategy in three Japanese species: Changes in nectar volume and sugar concentration dependent on flower age and flowering order

Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-345

  Kato, Shinya ^a   Sakai, Satoki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flower age; Flowering order; Gentiana triflora var. japonica; Hemerocallis middendorffii var. esculenta; Lobelia sessilifolia; Nectar sugar concentration; Nectar volume

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROWTH KINETICS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

FLOWER AGE; FLOWERING ORDER; LOBELIA SESSILIFOLIA; NECTAR SECRETION; NECTAR SUGAR CONCENTRATION; POLLINATORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGE; DICOTYLEDON; FLOWERING; LEARNING; NECTAR; POLLINATOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SECRETION; SEX ALLOCATION; SHRUB; SUGAR;

GENTIANA; GENTIANA TRIFLORA; HEMEROCALLIS; HEMEROCALLIS MIDDENDORFFII; JAPONICA; LOBELIA; LOBELIA SESSILIFOLIA;

EID: 43549087114     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B07-131     Document Type: Article

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