Journal
JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH
Volume 124, Issue 2, Pages 269-276Publisher
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-010-0368-8
Keywords
Competition; Fluorescent pigment; Interspecific pollen transfer; Invasive species; Seed set
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [19770023]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19770023] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Reproductive interference (RI), defined as the fitness cost of interspecific sexual interactions, such as interspecific pollen transfer (IPT) in plants, is ecologically important. Theoretically, RI could result in competitive exclusion, as it operates in a frequency-dependent manner. Additionally, IPT may have a greater range than resource competition, although information about the range of IPT is lacking. In the present study, we measured the range of IPT exerted by Taraxacum officinale (an alien species) on a native dandelion, T. japonicum. We used two approaches. In one, we analyzed the RI effect on a native seed set at three spatial scales. In the second, we tracked IPT from alien to native flower heads using fluorescent pigments as markers. We estimated that pollination distances were in the order of several meters. These distances exceeded the mean distance from each native plant to the nearest alien. As hypothesized, the effect of RI reached farther than neighboring individuals. These data indicate the spatial range from which alien dandelions should be removed to allow the conservation of natives.
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