Thursday, August 6, 2009

No seed size-seed number tradeoff in Lupinus perennis

"Within plants, this study detected no relationship between maternal parents’ seed number and seed size (weighted linear regression, b 5 3.8 3 1026, t 5 1.04, P 5 0.304) or between seed number and the coefficient of variation in seed size (weighted linear regression, b 5 23.8 3 1025, t 5 1.06, P 5 0.295; Fig. 2). Therefore, this study did not detect a trade-off between seed size and seed number, or a change in seed size variation with increasing seed number."

STACEY L. HALPERN (2005) SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES OF SEED SIZE VARIATIONIN LUPINUS PERENNIS (FABACEAE): ADAPTIVE ANDNON-ADAPTIVE HYPOTHESES. American Journal of Botany 92(2): 205–213.

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