ArticleAmerican journal of botany2019
Hermaphroditism promotes mate diversity in flowering plants.
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- Selfing rates vary with floral display, pollinator visitation and plant density in natural populations of Mimulus ringens.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2021Article
- Edge effects and mating patterns in a bumblebee-pollinated plant.AoB PLANTS · 2020Article
- Pollination intensity and paternity in flowering plants.Annals of botany · 2020Review
- Hermaphroditism promotes mate diversity in flowering plants.American journal of botany · 2019Article
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Abstract
premiseGenetically diverse sibships are thought to increase parental fitness through a reduction in the intensity of sib competition, and through increased opportunities for seedling establishment in spatially or temporally heterogeneous environments. Nearly all research on mate diversity in flowering plants has focused on the number of fathers siring seeds within a fruit or on a maternal plant. Yet as hermaphrodites, plants can also accrue mate diversity by siring offspring on several pollen recipients in a population. Here we explore whether mate composition overlaps between the dual sex functions, and discuss the implications for plant reproductive success.
methodsWe established an experimental population of 49 Mimulus ringens (monkeyflower) plants, each trimmed to a single flower. Following pollination by wild bees, we quantified mate composition for each flower through both paternal and maternal function. Parentage was successfully assigned to 240 progeny, 98% of the sampled seeds.
resultsComparison of mate composition between male and female function revealed high mate diversity, with almost no outcross mates shared between the two sexual functions of the same flower.
conclusionsDual sex roles contribute to a near doubling of mate diversity in our experimental population of Mimulus ringens. This finding may help explain the maintenance of hermaphroditism under conditions that would otherwise favor the evolution of separate sexes.
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