Correlated evolution of flower size and seed number in flowering plants (monocotyledons)
Date
2019-01-01Author
Bawa, Kamaljit S.
Ingty, Tenzing
Revell, Liam J.
Shivaprakash, K. N
Publisher
Annals of BotanyDescription
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Kin selection theory predicts that a parent may minimize deleterious effects of competition among seeds developing within ovaries by increasing the genetic relatedness of seeds within an ovary. Alternatively, the number of developing seeds could be reduced to one or a few. It has also been suggested that single or few seeded fruits may be correlated with small flowers, and multi-ovulate ovaries or many seeded fruits may be associated with large flowers with specialized pollination mechanisms. We examined the correlation between flower size and seed number in 69 families of monocotyledons to assess if correlations are significant and independent of phylogeny.