Seed set and seed mass in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>: variance partitioning and inferences about postpollination selection
Abstract
Events that follow pollination, such as pollen-tube growth and seed maturation, comprise an important phase of angiosperm reproduction. Differential success during this "postpollination" phase may represent phenotypic selection, including sexual selection, or interaction between parents caused, for example, by their genetic similarity. By providing a detailed partitioning of variance in success, diallel crossing designs offer great potential to determine which processes are occurring and their relative magnitudes. We performed three partial diallels with the montane herb Ipomopsis aggregata, using a large sample of parental plants (69 total). Embedded in the designs were crossing-distance treatments of 1 m, 10 m, and 100 m, reflecting a range of parental genetic similarity. We partitioned phenotypic variance in seed set per fruit into six components using restricted maximum-likelihood (REML) analysis. For one diallel, we also partitioned variance in seed mass into five components, and estimated two components of covariance between seed set and mass. Variance caused by maternal effects (V<sub>mat</sub> ) comprised 12%-35% of total variance in seed set and 62% of variance in seed mass, and there was a significant negative environmental covariance between seed set and seed mass. Parental interaction made no detectable contribution to phenotypic variance in either of our measures of postpollination success, although crossing distance did contribute slightly but significantly to fit of the model in some cases. Finally, there was no detectable paternal variance (V<sub>pat</sub> ) in seed set or seed mass. These results are in keeping with reports from other studies of natural plant populations. The finding of little or no paternal variance in particular suggests little scope for postpollination sexual selection through the male function of cosexual plants such as I. aggregata.
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