This research was supported by the Science and Technology Basic Work of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2013FY111200);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA13020504);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31970252,31370269,31570594,31000109);the Foundation of Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization,South China Botanical Garden,CAS(Grant No.PCU201903).
Pollination precision and efficiency have been deemed to be important driving forces in floral evolution.Herkogamy reduction is a main mechanism to increase pollination precision.Secondary pollen presentation(SPP),by ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170184, U1202261, 31000109, 31370269);the International Foundation for Science (AD/22476)
Reproductive isolation defines the biological species concept and plays a key role in the formation and maintenance of species. The relative contributions of different isolating stages has been suggested to be closely...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170184, U1202261, 31000109);the China Scholarship Council (for C. S.’s study in Canada)
Reproductive isolation is a fundamental require- ment for speciation and includes several sequential stages. Few studies have determined the relative contributions of pre- and post-zygotic reproductive isolation in pl...