Claim · model-written summary
Balanophora tobiracola set high fruit even under emasculation
- Taxon
- Balanophora tobiracola
Balanophora tobiracolae0 - Outcome
- fruit sete1
- Qualifier
- even under emasculatione1
Verbatim
e0“breeding system of the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora tobiracola on Yakushima Island”
e1“Pollination experiments revealed high fruit set even under emasculation, indicating that agamospermy ensures seed production”
Title
K. Suetsugu Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1111/plb.13770
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Balanophora tobiracola still relies heavily on pollinator activity for sexual reproduction
- Observation Ants and cockroaches were identified as effective pollinators of Balanophora tobiracola
- Observation Contributions of pyralid moths, crane flies and nitidulid beetles to pollination of Balanophora tobiracola were negligible
- Intervention effect A single visit from certain cockroach species significantly enhanced pollination of Balanophora tobiracola
