Claim · model-written summary
Pollen from tracking donors had a 32% germination advantage over pollen from tethered donors.
- Taxon
- Ranunculus adoneus
Ranunculus adoneust0 - Treatment
- solar-tracking donor flowerse0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- advantagee0
- Value
- 32%e0
- Comparator
- stationary (tethered) donor flowerse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“pollen from solar-tracking donor flowers exhibited a 32% advantage in germination compared to pollen from stationary (tethered) donor flowers”
t0“Ranunculus adoneus”
Title
Candace Galen; Maureen L. Stanton American Journal of Botany 2003. doi:10.3732/ajb.90.5.724
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Tracking flowers had 40% more germinating pollen grains at the end of anthesis.
- Intervention effect Tracking flowers had 44% more pollen tubes midway down the style.
- Intervention effect Solar tracking had no direct effect on pollen tube growth.
- Mechanism More germinating pollen in tracking flowers accounted for increased pollen tube density.
- Mechanism In natural flowers, tracking primarily affected pollen tube density through germination rather than deposition.