Up and down: Stamen movements in Ruta graveolens (Rutaceae) enhance both outcrossing and delayed selfing

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1017-1025

  Ren, Ming Xun ^a,b   Tang, Jing Yu ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dichogamy; experimental manipulation; pollen presentation; pollen removal; pollination; reproductive assurance; Ruta graveolens; stamen movement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AUTOGAMY; DICOTYLEDON; MOVEMENT; OUTCROSSING; POLLEN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

LOASACEAE; PARNASSIACEAE; RUTA GRAVEOLENS; RUTACEAE; TROPAEOLACEAE;

NECTAR;

ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; FLOWER; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NECTAR; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; RUTA; SELF FERTILIZATION;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FLOWERS; INSECTS; MOVEMENT; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; POLLINATION; RUTA; SELF-FERTILIZATION;

EID: 84866660724     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs181     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Barrett SCH. 2002. Sexual interference of the floral kinds. Heredity 88: 154-159.
2. Brown DK, Kaul RB. 1981. Floral structure and mechanism in Loasaceae. American Journal of Botany 68: 361-372.
3. Castellanos MC, Wilson P, Keller SJ, Wolfe AD, Thomson JD. 2006. Anther evolution: pollen presentation strategies when pollinators differ. American Journal of Botany 167: 288-296.
4. Conner JK, Sahli HF, Karoly K. 2009. Test of adaptation: functional studies of pollen removal and estimate of natural selection on anther position in wild radish. Annals of Botany 103: 1547-1556.
5. Du W, Qin KZ, Wang XF. 2012. The mechanism of stamen movement in Chimonanthus praecox (Calycanthaceae): differential cell growth rates on the adaxial and abaxial surfaces of filaments after flower opening. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298: 561-567.
6. Fenster CB, Armbruster WS, Wilson P, Dudash MR, Thomson JD. 2004. Pollination syndromes and floral specialization. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35: 375-403
7. Fetscher AE. 2001. Resolution of male-female conflict in a hermaphroditic flower. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 268: 525-529.
8. Foerste AF. 1888. Notes on structures adapted to cross-fertilization. Botanical Gazette 13: 151-156.
9. Gong YB, Huang SQ. 2009. Floral symmetry: pollinator-mediated stabilizing selection on flower size in bilateral species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276: 4013-4020.
10. Harder LD, Barrett SCH. 1993. Pollen removal from tristylous Pontederia cordata: effects of anther position and pollinator specialization. Ecology 74: 1059-1072.
11. Harder LD, Thomson JD. 1989. Evolutionary options for maximizing pollen removal of animal-pollinated plant. American Journal of Botany 133: 323-344.
12. Harder LD, Wilson WG. 1994. Floral evolution and male reproductive success: optimal dispensing schedules for pollen removal by animal-pollinated plants. Evolutionary Ecology 8: 542-559.
13. Kudo G. 2003. Anther arrangement influences pollen deposition and removal in hermaphrodite flowers. Functional Ecology 17: 349-355.
14. Lechowski Z, Białczyk J. 1992. Effect of external calcium on the control of stamen movement in Berberis ulgaris L. Biologia Plantarum 34: 121-130.
15. Liu KW, Liu ZJ, Huang LQ, Li LQ, Chen LJ, Tang GD. 2006. Self-fertilization strategy in an orchid. Nature 441: 945-946.
16. Lloyd DG, Yates JMA. 1982. Intrasexual selection and the segregation of pollen and stigma in hermaphrodite plants, exemplified by Wahlenbergia albomarginata (Campanulaceae). Evolution 36: 903-913.
17. Nagy ES, Strong L, Galloway LF. 1999. Contribution of delayed autogamous selfing to reproductive success in Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia (Ericaceae). The American Midland Naturalist 142: 39-46.
18. Negrón-Ortiz V. 1998. Reproductive biology of a rare cactus, Opuntia spino-sissima (Cactaceae), in the Florida Keys: why is seed set very low? Sexual Plant Reproduction 11: 208-212.
19. Qu RM, Li XJ, Luo YB, Dong M, Xu HL, Chen X, Dafni A. 2007. Wind-dragged corolla enhances self-pollination: a new mechanism of delayed self-pollination. Annals of Botany 100: 1155-1164.
20. Ren MX. 2010. Stamen movements in hermaphroditic flowers: diversity and adaptive significance. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology 34: 867-875 (in Chinese with English abstract).
21. Ren MX, Tang JY. 2010. Anther fusion enhances pollen removal in Campsis grandiflora, a hermaphroditic flower with didynamous stamens. International Journal of Plant Sciences 171: 275-282.
22. Rodriguez-Riano T, Dafni A. 2007. Pollen-stigma interference in two gyno-dioecious species of Lamiaceae with intermediate individuals. Annals of Botany 100: 423-431.
23. Ruan CJ, Mopper S, Teixeira da Silva JA, Qin P, Zhang QX, Shan Y. 2009. Context-dependent style curvature in Kosteletzkya virginica (Malvaceae) offers reproductive assurance under unpredictable pollinator environments. Plant Systematics and Evolution 277: 207-215.
24. Schlindwein C, Wittmann D. 1997. Stamen movement in flowers of Opunia (Cactaceae) favour oligolectic pollinators. Plant Systematics and Evolution 204: 179-193.
25. Tang JY, Ren MX. 2011. Sex allocation and functional bias of flowers on same inflorescence in hermaphrodite Ruta graveolens. Acta Oecologica 37: 449-454.
26. Taylor PE, Card G, House J, Dickinson MH, Flagan RC. 2006. High-speed pollen release in the white mulberry tree, Morus alba L. Sexual Plant Reproduction 19: 19-24.
27. Thomson JD, Wilson P, Valenzuela MV, Malzone M. 2000. Pollen presentation and pollination syndromes, with special reference to Penstemon. Plant Species Biology 15: 11-29.
28. Weigend M, Ackermann M, Henning T. 2010. Reloading the revolver-male fitness as a simple explanation for complex reward partitioning in Nasa macrothyrsa (Loasaceae, Cornales). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 124-131.
29. Weryszko-Chmielewska E, Chwil M, Piotrowska K, Czernećkyj M, Konopińska A, Ulborska A. 2003. Flowering biology of Ruta graveo-lens L. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska Sectio EEE, Horticultura 13: 39-44 [in Polish].
30. Whitaker DL, Webster LA, Edwards J. 2007. The biomechanics of Cornus canadensis stamens are ideal for catapulting pollen vertically. Functional Ecology 21: 219-225.
31. Wittmann D, Schlindwein C. 1995. Melittophilous plants, their pollen and flower visiting bees in southern Brazil. 1. Loasaceae. Biociências (Porto Alegre) 3: 19-34.