Mate Choice in Plants

Name: Mate Choice in Plants
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ISBN: 9780691083346

Tactics, Mechanisms, and Consequences

Nancy Burley, Mary F. Willson

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Princeton University Press
29 November 1983

Plant physiology; Plant reproduction & propagation

Series: Monographs in Population Biology

This book maintains that higher plants manifest some degree of sexual selection, and it begins to build a framework that unifies many features of plant reproduction previously considered unrelated. Reviewing evidence for sexual selection in plants, the authors discuss possible male-female interactions, concluding with an extensive set of hypotheses for testing. Mechanisms that could be employed in sexual selection in plants include various cellular mechanisms, such as both nuclear and cytoplasmic genetics, B chromosomes, and paternal contributions to the zygote, as well as abortion, double fertilization, delayed fertilization, and certain forms of polyembryony. This study compares the consequences of these processes for the evolution of mate choice in ""gymnosperms"" and angiosperms.

By: Nancy Burley, Mary F. Willson
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 19
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780691083346
ISBN 10: 0691083347
Series: Monographs in Population Biology
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 29 November 1983
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Mate Choice in Plants: Tactics, Mechanisms, and Consequences

""Mate Choice in Plants calls attention to the possibility of new insights arising from application to plants of ideas originally formulated as explanations of animal behavior, and it does so far more thoroughly than any previous publication.""--George C. Williams, State University of New York at Stony Brook