Crossing distance effects on prezygotic performance in plants: an argument for female choice
Abstract
Seed set in the perennial larkspur Delphinium nelsonii is greater in crosses between plants growing an intermediate distance apart than in shorter and longer crosses. Since crossing distance is an attribute of a specific combination of parents, its effect on seed set represents an interaction of these parents, and since genetic similarity declines with physical distance in D. nelsonii populations, the interaction reflects parental genetic similarity. Understanding processes responsible for the effect is simplified if seed set differences result from prezygotic events, because in this case no inbreeding or outbreeding depression are involved. In 1990 we observed pollen tubes after performing crosses between plants separated by 1 m, 10 m, or 100 m, and found that the intermediate, 10 m crosses delivered the most tubes to the ovary
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