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TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 99-104Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-009-0382-4
Keywords
Non-random mating; Pinus sylvestris; Pollen competition; Pollen interactions
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- Academy of Finland
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Finnish Society of Forest Science
- Finnish Forest Research Institute
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Pre-zygotic pollen competition is believed to play an important role in nonrandom mating, i.e., the unequal success of different pollen donors. We studied pollen-pollen interactions of Scots pine in vitro using multiwell plates with freely permeable inserts. Six genotypes were included in our experiments: three from northern Finland and three from southern Finland. We conducted control experiments by placing pollen of each genotype in both the well and its insert. In competition experiments each southern genotype was incubated in insert with each northern genotype in well, and vice-versa. Samples for the germinability observations were taken from inserts. The mean germination percentage of northern genotypes was lower when incubating with southern genotypes in competition experiments than in control experiments. In one case, a northern genotype showed lower mean germination percentage in competition experiment than in control experiment and in another case a southern genotype showed a higher value. Our results suggest a chemically mediated interaction between pollen from different genotypes and one which can vary among genotypes.
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