Biparental inbreeding depression, genetic relatedness and progeny vigour in a wind-pollinated treeline species in Argentina

Plant Ecology

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-164

  Seltmann, Peggy ^a   Hensen, Isabell ^a   Renison, Daniel ^b   Wesche, Karsten ^c   Ploch, Sebastian ^e   Dueñas, Juan Rondan ^d   Cocucci, Andrea ^b   Jung, Klaus ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biparental inbreeding depression; Genetic similarity; N metabolism capacity; Outcrossing distances; Polylepis australis; Wind pollination

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANGIOSPERM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; METABOLISM; OUTCROSSING; PARENTAL CARE; POLLINATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREELINE; WOODLAND;

ARGENTINA; SIERRAS DE CORDOBA; SOUTH AMERICA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POLYLEPIS AUSTRALIS; ROSACEAE;

EID: 70350191598     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9605-4     Document Type: Article

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