Cryptic seed abortion and the estimation of ovule fertilization
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Botany
- Vol. 65 (11) , 2463-2465
- https://doi.org/10.1139/b87-334
Abstract
In a natural population of Raphanus sativus L. 41% of all fertilized ovules aborted before seed maturation. However, in mature fruits over 75% of the abortion was undetected. The cryptic abortion of developing seeds was likely due to the early time of abortion and the corky nature of the pericarp. The results are important for the accurate measurement of ovule fertilization and seed abortion in ecological studies of plant reproduction.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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