Claim · model-written summary
Abortion events were negatively related to seed mass.
- Taxon
- Guanacaste tree
Enterolobium cyclocarpumt0 - Organ / stage
- seede0
- Outcome
- seed masse0
- Direction
- negativee0
- Qualifier
- abortion eventse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A negative relationship was found between abortion events and seed mass.”
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.
- Association Abortion was more frequent at the extreme positions of fruit 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.
- 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.