

Author: Kawagoe Tetsuhiro Suzuki Nobuhiko
Publisher: NRC Research Press
ISSN: 1480-3305
Source: Canadian Journal of Botony, Vol.82, Iss.2, 2004-02, pp. : 214-218
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Abstract
Female flowers of some dioecious species are known to develop stamens with sterile pollen, a sexual system known as cryptic dioecy. A convincing hypothesis explaining this phenomenon is that stamens in female flowers attract pollinators and so ensure seed production. However, because this hypothesis has rarely been tested experimentally, we tested it in a cryptically dioecious species,
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