Format:
Online Ressource (xii, 344 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Oxford Univ. Press pbk
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780198021926
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0198021925
Content:
This collection of reviews examines plant reproduction within a framework of evolutionary ecology. The contributors discuss conceptual issues, showing the importance of sex allocation, sexual selection and inclusive fitness, and the dimensions of paternity and maternity in plants
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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Foreword; Contents; I: Conceptual Issues in Plant Breeding Systems; 1. Sociobiology of plants: an emerging synthesis; 2. Paternity in plants; 3. Inclusive fitness, seed resources, and maternal care; 4. Monomorphic and dimorphic sexual strategies: a modular approach; 5. The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatibility systems; 6. Sex determination in plants; 7. Gender diphasy ("sex choice"); II: Ecological Forces; 8. Nectar production, flowering phenology, and strategies for pollination; 9. Patterns of fruit and seed production; 10. Plant morphology and reproduction.
Additional Edition:
9780195063943
Additional Edition:
Print version Plant reproductive ecology
Language:
English
Keywords:
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