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Floral morph composition and pollen limitation in the seed set of Nymphoides indica populations
Authors:Yuki?Shibayama,Yasuro?Kadono  author-information"  >  author-information__contact u-icon-before"  >  mailto:kadono@kobe-u.ac.jp"   title="  kadono@kobe-u.ac.jp"   itemprop="  email"   data-track="  click"   data-track-action="  Email author"   data-track-label="  "  >Email author
Affiliation:(1) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Kobe 657–8501, Japan;(2) Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657–8501, Japan
Abstract:We investigated the floral morph composition and seed set of the populations in a heterostylous aquatic plant, Nymphoides indica O. Kuntze (Menyanthaceae). The bias of floral morph ratio in the populations was negatively correlated with the seed set. In the populations with biased floral morph ratio, the pollen on the stigma of the common morphs were dominated by pollen of the same morph, resulting in reduced seed set. The addition of pollen of the opposite morph on the stigmas of the common morph resulted in an increase of fruit and seed set rates. The intermorph pollination rate and the fruit and seed set rates of Nymphoides indica were highest when two floral morphs were close in the populations. Various insect species including Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera visited the flowers. However, geitonogamous pollination was common because of the short flying distance of the pollinators. These results indicate that the seed set of Nymphoides indica is limited by the shortage of compatible pollens and that the success of intermorph pollination is influenced by spatial distribution of the two floral morphs. As Nymphoides indica is endangered, conservation of the populations with high fecundity is proposed by us.
Keywords:floral morph composition  geitonogamous pollination  heterostyly  intermorph pollination rate  pollen limitation
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