| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword; Contents; I: Conceptual Issues in Plant Breeding Systems; 1. Sociobiology of plants: an emerging synthesis; 2. Paternity in plants; 3. Inclusive fitness, seed resources, and maternal care; 4. Monomorphic and dimorphic sexual strategies: a modular approach; 5. The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatibility systems; 6. Sex determination in plants; 7. Gender diphasy ("sex choice"); II: Ecological Forces; 8. Nectar production, flowering phenology, and strategies for pollination; 9. Patterns of fruit and seed production; 10. Plant morphology and reproduction |
| Summary |
This collection of reviews examines plant reproduction within a framework of evolutionary ecology. The contributors discuss conceptual issues, showing the importance of sex allocation, sexual selection and inclusive fitness, and the dimensions of paternity and maternity in plants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plants -- Reproduction.
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Plant ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Plant ecology
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Plants -- Reproduction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lovett Doust, Jon.
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Lovett Doust, Lesley.
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| ISBN |
9780198021926 |
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0198021925 |
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