Claim · model-written summary
Low natural fruit set was not related to pollen limitation.
- Taxon
- Mandevilla pentlandiana
Mandevilla pentlandianat0 - Treatment
- pollen limitatione0
- Outcome
- natural fruit sete0
- Qualifier
- not related to pollen limitatione0
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Verbatim
e0“the low natural fruit set was not related to pollen limitation”
t0“Mandevilla pentlandiana”
Title
Factors constraining fruit set inMandevilla pentlandiana(Apocynaceae)
C TORRES Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 1999. doi:10.1006/bojl.1998.0216
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation The plant initiates few fruits, at 9%.
- Observation The vine is self-compatible but not autogamous.
- Intervention effect Pollination treatments did not significantly differ in ripe and abortive fruit sets or fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Seedling survival did not significantly differ between pollination treatments.
- Association Earlier fruits had the highest probability of maturation and fruits were not randomly distributed within inflorescences.
- Association Fruit quality did not significantly differ by fruit position.
- Association Fruit initiation time influenced most fruit traits.
- Observation Twenty percent of developing fruits were aborted.
- Intervention effect Hand pollination of the whole inflorescence increased abortion probability.
- Association Abortions were positively correlated with the number of ripe fruits developing previously.
- Mechanism The intersection of mean fruit number and fruit set per inflorescence is proposed as the optimum size maximizing female and male functions equally.
- Mechanism Pollen donation may be the primary evolutionary factor behind excess flowers.