Claim · model-written summary
Figs receiving extra-varietal pollen contained fewer seeds.
- Taxon
- Ficus semicordata
Ficus semicordatae1 - Outcome
- seedse0
- Direction
- fewere0
- Qualifier
- extra-varietal pollene0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“figs with extra-varietal pollen were more likely to abort and contained fewer seeds.”
e1“two sympatric varieties of Ficus semicordata”
Title
Gang Wang; Stephen G. Compton; Jin Chen Annals of Botany 2012. doi:10.1093/aob/mcs250
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The two fig varieties had different receptive floral scent compositions.
- Observation Only one Ceratosolen species preferred one scent over the other in Y-tube tests.
- Observation Both pollinator species preferred entering figs of their normal hosts after walking on figs.
- Observation Both pollinators could enter and pollinate both fig varieties.
- Observation Figs receiving extra-varietal pollen were more likely to abort.
- Observation Hybrid seeds germinated at normal rates.
- Mechanism Contact cues and floral scents together maintain pollinator host specificity.
- Mechanism Post-zygotic factors reduce hybrid offspring production but allow possible gene flow.