期刊
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
卷 52, 期 3, 页码 363-367出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jse.12082
关键词
autonomous selfing; Comastoma pulmonarium; Gentianaceae; inbreeding depression; nectar robbery; pollinator failure; reproductive assurance
资金
- National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 program) [2010CB951704]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270434]
In plants with infrequent pollinator services, the benefits of reproductive assurance could be eroded by severe ovule discounting and inbreeding depression (ID). However, it remains unclear how selfing evolves under complete pollinator failure and strong ID. We examined the mating system and ID under netting and robbing conditions in Comastoma pulmonarium (Turcz.) Toyok. (Gentianaceae), an alpine annual experiencing a high ratio of nectar robbery on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Comastoma pulmonarium produced seeds via selfing at the study site. No pollinator was observed and thus the nectar was consumed exclusively by robbers. Inbreeding depression occurred in the life stages of seed mass and germination, and the cumulative ID was much higher than 0.5 under netting and robbing conditions. Overall, in comparison with netting, the magnitude of ID under robbing conditions tended to decrease. Our results suggested that selfing could assure reproduction for plants under complete pollinator failure and strong ID, supporting the better than nothing role of selfing and providing one of the few cases of the evolution of selfing under strong ID.
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