Female and male fitness consequences of clonal growth in a dwarf bamboo population with a high degree of clonal intermingling.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Although many studies have reported that clonal growth interferes with sexual reproduction as a result of geitonogamous self-pollination and inbreeding depression, the mating costs of clonal growth are expected to be reduced when genets are spatially intermingled with others. This study examined how clonal growth affects both female and male reproductive success by studying a population of a mass-flowering plant, Sasa veitchii var. hirsuta, with a high degree of clonal intermingling.

Methods

In a 10 × 10 m plot, genets were discriminated based on the multilocus genotypes of 11 nuclear microsatellite loci. The relationships between genet size and the components of reproductive success were then investigated. Male siring success and female and male selfing

SUBMITTER: Matsuo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4171080 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature