Claim · model-written summary
Bagged flowers had 9.2% fruit set versus 48.9% for open controls in the second experiment.
- Taxon
- Persoonia virgata
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Persoonia virgatat0 - Organ / stage
- flowerse0
- Treatment
- bagged flowerse0
- Outcome
- fruit sete0
- Direction
- significantly lesse0
- Value
- 9.2%e0
- Qualifier
- 48.9%e0
- Comparator
- control flowers left open to visitorse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“fruit set of bagged flowers (0.5% and 9.2%) was significantly less ( P < 0.001) than fruit set of control flowers left open to visitors (24.0% and 48.9%) in two experiments, respectively”
t0“Persoonia virgata”
Title
Helen M Wallace; Glynn V Maynard; Stephen J Trueman Australian Journal of Entomology 2002. doi:10.1046/j.1440-6055.2002.00265.x
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Trigona carbonaria and female Leioproctus speculiferus were the two most frequent flower visitors.
- Observation The two bee species used different foraging strategies on Persoonia virgata flowers.
- Observation Leioproctus speculiferus was the most effective pollinator based on more frequent stigma contact.
- Intervention effect Bagged flowers had 0.5% fruit set versus 24.0% for open controls in the first experiment.
- Intervention effect Bagged cross-pollinated flowers set 43.8% fruit versus 6.6% for bagged self-pollinated flowers.
- Intervention effect Cross-pollinated and open control flowers did not differ significantly in fruit set.