| 要旨トップ | 目次 | 日本生態学会第67回全国大会 (2020年3月、名古屋) 講演要旨
ESJ67 Abstract


一般講演(口頭発表) K02-10  (Oral presentation)

種子食害回避戦略としての雄花生産:雄性両全性同株植物の性表現変異
Male flower production for the escape from seed herbivory: gender variation in andromonoecious plants

*Gaku KUDO, Akari SHIBATA(Hokkaido University)

Floral gender of angiosperm often varies within and among populations. Not only plant size and pollination situation but also herbivorous damage may influence floral gender. We test the hypothesis that pre-dispersal seed predation affects the floral gender of andromonoecious herb, Peucedanum multivittatum. We compared plant size, male and hermaphrodite flower production, fruit set, and seed predation damage among 9 populations in the alpine meadows. Both male and hermaphrodite flower production increased with plant size but floral gender (proportion of male flowers) was independent of size. The number of male flowers increased at the early-snowmelt populations, while that of hermaphrodite flowers increased at the middle to late-snowmelt populations, resulting in the male-biased floral gender at the early-snowmelt populations. Pre-dispersal seed predation by micro-lepidopteran larvae was intense at the early-snowmelt populations because of the phenological matching between flowering period and appearance of predator moths. In contrast, predation damage was nothing at the late-snowmelt populations. There was a clear correlation between male flower production and the intensity of seed predation damage among populations. These results strongly indicate that the male-biased flower production is a strategy to maintain the reproductive success as a pollen donor under the condition of severe predation damage.


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