Claim · model-written summary
Abortion was more frequent at the extreme positions of fruit in all populations.
- Taxon
- Guanacaste tree
Enterolobium cyclocarpumt0 - Organ / stage
- extreme positions of the fruite0
- Outcome
- frequency of abortionse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- all populationse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“a higher frequency of abortions in the extreme positions of the fruit were common patterns in all populations.”
t0“Guanacaste Tree”
Title
Jorge A. Lobo; Edson J. Cristóbal‐Pérez; María M. Chavarría; et al. Biotropica 2025. doi:10.1111/btp.70008
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Seed abortion rates were overdispersed per fruit within trees in all populations.
- Observation The abortion patterns were present from the beginning of fruit formation.
- Association Stylar ovules did not have higher survival despite earlier fertilization.
- Association Abortion events were negatively related to seed mass.
- Mechanism The authors infer fruit-specific fertilization and developmental conditions drive abortion rate and seed mass.
- Mechanism The authors suggest the abortion–mass correlation may reflect the fruit’s capacity to drain maternal resources.