The effect of flower position on variation and covariation in floral traits in a wild hermaphrodite plant

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Floral traits within plants can vary with flower position or flowering time. Within an inflorescence, sexual allocation of early produced basal flowers is often female-biased while later produced distal flowers are male-biased. Such...

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Main Authors: Du Guo-Zhen, Zhao Zhi-Gang, Huang Shuang-Quan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-05-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/10/91