Claim · model-written summary
Approximately 50% of ovules of marketable pods yielded viable seeds in all plants.
- Taxon
- Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgarise0 - Outcome
- ovules of marketable pods, in all plants, yielded viable seedse3
- Value
- Approximately 50%e3
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Verbatim
e0“Bean plant (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) growth was monitored”
e3“Approximately 50% of ovules of marketable pods, in all plants, yielded viable seeds”
Title
DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF FLOWER AND FRUIT PRODUCTION IN BEAN PLANTS, PHASEOLUS VULGARIS L.
Jon Lovett Doust; G. W. Eaton American Journal of Botany 1982. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1982.tb13359.x
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Pod removal increased the numbers of flowers, ovules and viable seeds compared with untreated bean plants.
- Intervention effect Pod removal increased the total weight of pods compared with untreated bean plants.
- Intervention effect The proportion of ovules giving rise to viable seeds, aborted seeds and undeveloped ovules was the same with and without pod removal.
- Observation The 12 cohorts of flowers contributed markedly different amounts to bean plant yield.
- Association Early and later flower cohorts contributed much less marketable pod dry weight than middle cohorts.
- Association Early and later flower cohorts had much lower numbers of fully developed seeds, aborted seeds and undeveloped ovules than middle cohorts.
- Observation Peak productivity was obtained from the middle phase of flowering in bean plants.
- Mechanism The lower pod yield of later cohorts is interpreted as resulting from competition for limited resources between maturing pods and new flowers.