Claim · model-written summary
Pollen tubes reached the ovary in cross-pollinated and selfed pistils.
- Taxon
- Jacaranda copaia
Jacaranda copaiat0 - Organ / stage
- pistilse0
- Outcome
- Pollen tube growth down to ovarye0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
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Verbatim
t0“Jacaranda copaia”
e0“Pollen tube growth down to ovary was detected under fluorescence microcoscopy in cross-pollinated and selfed pistils”
Title
Márcia Motta Maués; Paulo Eugênio A. M. de Oliveira; Milton Kanashiro Revista Brasileira de Botânica 2008. doi:10.1590/s0100-84042008000300015
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Flowering spans August to November and lasts up to four weeks per tree and 3-4 months per population.
- Observation Fruit set ends at the rainy season onset, with winged seeds dispersed by wind.
- Observation Open pollination yielded 1.06% fruit set.
- Intervention effect Self pollen hand pollination did not set fruit.
- Intervention effect Cross pollination produced 6.54% fruit set, six times natural pollination.
- Intervention effect Flowers excluded from insects did not set fruit.
- Observation The species is obligately outcrossing with late-acting self incompatibility.
- Observation Approximately 40 native bee species visited the flowers.
- Observation Euglossa and Centris were the main pollinators.