Do plants adjust their sex allocation and secondary sexual morphology in response to their neighbours?

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1471-1478

  Vilas, Julia Sánchez ^a   Pannell, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Androdioecy; environmental cues; environmental sex determination; hermaphroditism; phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANDRODIOECY; CHEMICAL CUE; COEXISTENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERN; GAMETOPHYTE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HERMAPHRODITE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLLEN; SEED PRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPORE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; EUPHORBIACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOROCCO; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EXUDATE; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENT; EUPHORBIACEAE; MOROCCO; PHENOTYPE; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT ROOTS; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 84869196351     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs182     Document Type: Article

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