Flotation preferentially selects saccate pollen during conifer pollination

New Phytologist

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 273-279

  Leslie, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caytonia; Conifers; Functional morphology; Pollination biology; Saccate pollen

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GYMNOSPERM; POLLEN; POLLINATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SECRETION; SPORE;

ARTICLE; CONIFER; HISTOLOGY; OVULE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

CONIFEROPHYTA; OVULE; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONIFEROPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 77956280267     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03356.x     Document Type: Article

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