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Stigma receptivity over the lifetime of the hermaphroditic flower of Elsholtzia rugulosa was negatively correlated with pollen viability.
Plant Signaling & Behavior 2016 December
Dichogamy is generally thought to be a mechanism that prevents self-fertilization in flowering plants. This study aims to investigate the relationships between floral age and stigma receptivity, style length and pollen viability, and define how floral characters avoid self-pollination in a gynodioecious Chinese plant, Elsholtzia rugulosa. We assessed the relationships between flower age and style length, stigma receptivity, and pollen viability in E. rugulosa. This species produces 2 forms with plants bearing either hermaphrodite flowers (H) or female flowers (F). Corolla length in F flowers was shorter than the corolla length of H flowers and produced no pollen. H flowers were protandrous, pollen release of H flowers occurred before stigma receptivity. Stigma receptivity was significantly positively correlated with style length in both F flowers and H flowers. Pollen viability in H flowers declined significantly with floral age. Our results suggest that self-pollination in H flowers is likely reduced by dichogamy because stigma receptivity and pollen viability were effectively separated in time. However, because H inflorescences typically have multiple flowers open at the same time means that geitonogamous selfing is not avoided.
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