supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970250).
Andromonoecy is a rare sexual system in plants.The function of additional male flowers in andromonoecious species has been widely discussed;however,few studies have taken offspring fitness into account.In addition,lit...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1402267,31270281)to S.Q.H。
Resource allocation to female and male function may vary among individual plants in species with variable sex expression.Size-dependent sex allocation has been proposed in hermaphrodites,in which female-biased allocat...
supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation (31361140355, 31401893, 31272184);National Key Development Plan Pilot Projects (Functional genomics research and application of wheat and other crops);Beijing Scholar Program and Beijing Excellent Talents Program (2014000021223TD03);Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (6141001, 6144023, WRDMC01);Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2015BAD02B0202, 2014BAD01B08);Ministry of Agriculture of China (CARS-26)
Summary Although it has been reported previously that ethylene plays a critical role in sex determination in cucurbit species, how the andromonoecy that carries both the male and hermaphroditic flowers is determined i...
The architectural development of Acacia karroo conforms to Troll’s model. Growth of the branches is modular and sympodial with heteroblastic leaves on all long shoots of the tree, including the seedling. Axillary bud...
Supported by the Projects on the Research and Development of High Technology of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (200810102), China, the Construction of Scientific and Technological Platforms Project from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (2005DKA21006 and 2005DKA21403);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90302004).
The pollen donor and pollinator attractor hypotheses are explanations for the functions of the male flowers of andromonoecious plants. We tested these two hypotheses in the andromonoecious shrub Capparis spinosa L. (...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30430160)
Theory predicts that cosexual plants should adjust their resource investment in male and female functions according to their size if female and male fitness are differentially affected by size. However, few empirical ...
Supported by the Natfonal Natural Science Foundation of China (30125008 and 30430160).We thank Tian-Xiang Wang (Beijing Normal University, China) for field assistance and Quan-Guo Zhang (Beijing Normal University, China) for comments on the manuscript.
Pollen limitation and resource limitation were invoked to account for the pattern that flowering plants produce more flowers and ovules than fruits and seeds. This study aimed to determine their relative importance in...
Sex expression in Sagittaria guyanensis H.B.K. subsp. lappula (D. Don) Bojin is typically andromonoecious while the other species in the same genus are basically monoecious. The evolutionary advantages of male...