This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31800314 and U160323);a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to SCHB.
Reproductive traits that function in pollinator attraction may be reduced or lost during evolutionary transitions from outcrossing to selfing.Although floral scent plays an important role in attracting pollinators in ...
Distyly is a floral polymorphism with long-styled flowers and short-styled flowers. Traditionally, floral traits in distylous species have been studied as a variable composed of several linear measurements. We propose...
Acknowledgements The authors thank Fan LIU, Xing-Yu YANG, Zhi-Yuan DU, and Chun-Feng YANG for their help in fieldwork, and Dan YANG and Shu-Ying ZHAO for their assistance in the laboratory. This study was supported by grants from the One Hundred Person Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to WQF (Grant No. KSCX2-YW- Z-0805) and from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30970195 and 31270278).
Nymphoidespeltata is a distylous aquatic plant. In order to explore the relative importance ofclonal growth and sexual reproduction within populations and also to reveal the origin of the commonly occurring one style ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China General Projects (30500300);the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (050430501);the Doctoral Subject Foundation of High College of Chinese Education Commission (20060370001) ;the Foundation for Junior Teacher of Anhui Education Department (2005jq1051)
The reproductive ability related to the population size of the endangered and endemic species Primula merrilliana Schltr. was investigated. In 26 populations observed, only four contain more than 500 flowering individ...