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Investigating the independent evolution of the size of floral organs via G-matrix estimation and artificial selection.
Evolution & development - 1 Jan 2000
Delph Lynda F, Frey Frank M, Steven Janet C, Gehring Janet L
Abstract excerpt
The attractiveness of a plant to pollinators is dependent on both the number of flowers produced and the size of the petals. However, limiting resources often result in a size/number trade-off, whereby the plant can make either more flowers or larger flowers, but not both. If developmental genes underlying sepal and petal identity (some of which overlap) also influence size, then this shared genetic basis could...
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