Enhancing pollen competition by delaying stigma receptivity: Pollen deposition schedules affect siring ability, paternal diversity, and seed production in Collinsia heterophylla (Plantaginaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1191-1200

  Lankinen, Åsa ^a,b   Madjidian, Josefin A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collinsia heterophylla; Cryptic self incompatibility; Delayed stigma receptivity; Differential resource allocation; Mate choice; Mixed mating system; Paternal diversity; Pollen competition; Pollen deposition; Pollen load size

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; FITNESS; GENETIC MARKER; INCOMPATIBILITY; MATE CHOICE; MULTIPLE MATING; PATERNAL EFFECT; POLLEN; SEED PRODUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CROSS BREEDING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PLANTAGO; POLLEN; POLLINATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CROSSES, GENETIC; LINEAR MODELS; ORGAN SIZE; PLANTAGO; POLLEN; POLLINATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

COLLINSIA HETEROPHYLLA; PLANTAGINACEAE;

EID: 84155168629     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000510     Document Type: Article

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