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Gender-specific floral and physiological traits: implications for the maintenance of females in gynodioecious Lobelia siphilitica.
Oecologia - 1 May 2003
Caruso Christina M, Maherali Hafiz, Jackson Robert B
Abstract excerpt
A common gender dimorphism in angiosperms is gynodioecy, in which hermaphrodites and females co-occur. Females are at an inherent disadvantage because they can transmit their genes only through ovule production. One mechanism by which females can compensate for the loss of male function is by producing more seeds than hermaphrodites. As such, females should: (1) increase resource uptake to support higher seed...
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