Correction: Breeding system and inbreeding depression in the rare orchid, Platanthera praeclara, in a fragmented grassland landscape

Botany ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-341
Author(s):  
Steven E. Travers ◽  
Kirk Anderson ◽  
Pati Vitt ◽  
Marion O. Harris
Flora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 151488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Nebot ◽  
Donatella Cogoni ◽  
Giuseppe Fenu ◽  
Gianluigi Bacchetta

Botany ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Travers ◽  
Kirk Anderson ◽  
Pati Vitt ◽  
Marion O. Harris

An important consequence of self-compatibility in plants is that self-pollination can have deleterious effects on plant fitness because of inbreeding. We conducted a hand pollination experiment under field conditions to measure the magnitude of inbreeding depression associated with self-pollination in the rare western prairie fringed-orchid Platanthera praeclara Sheviak and Bowles. By comparing capsules and seeds resulting from cross versus self-pollination treatments, we determined that self-pollination reduces seed quality while having no detectable effect on capsule production or seed numbers. A smaller percentage of seeds resulting from self-pollination contained an embryo (18%) relative to seeds from cross-pollination (46%). Seeds that had an embryo were scored for the size of the embryo, small or large. A smaller proportion of seeds from self-pollination contained a large embryo (75%) relative to seeds from cross-pollination (92%). These results suggest that sexual reproduction and recruitment in this rare plant are dependent on the frequency of pollinator visitations that result in outcrossing.


Flora ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 202 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafdís Hanna Ægisdóttir ◽  
Daniela Jespersen ◽  
Patrick Kuss ◽  
Jürg Stöcklin

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Wen-Bin Yu ◽  
Hong-Zhe Li ◽  
Kai-Yun Guan

Flowers of Clematis display showy corollas and diversified shapes. This diversity motivates study of adaptive evolution of flower–pollinator interactions and the functional association between floral traits and plant mating strategies. An integrative study was undertaken, which focused on pollination and reproductive biology of three species representing all three floral types of Clematis. Floral traits were measured, and pollinator assemblages were observed in the field. Bagging, hand-pollination and removal treatments were used to examine breeding systems. The inbreeding depression and pollen limitation were estimated by fruit-set and seed production obtained from pollination treatments. Their floral traits are distinctly different, but are highly associated with pollination syndrome and breeding system. Among them, Clematis akebioides and C. rehderiana may be facultative autogamy (the former was delayed selfing, and the later competing selfing), and C. chrysocoma may be nearly obligate outcrossing. These conclusions are reflected in their stamen-pistil ratios. The levels of inbreeding depression are negatively associated with autonomous self-pollination. Evolution of self-pollination in C. akebioides and C. rehderiana, and pollen limitation in reproduction of the three Clematis species are discussed. This present study, integrating with previous results, will help us to comprehensively recognise and understand the pollination system and reproductive characteristics of Clematis.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Van Etten ◽  
Anah Soble ◽  
Regina S Baucom

AbstractInbreeding depression is a central parameter underlying mating system variation in nature and one that can be altered by environmental stress. Although a variety of systems show that inbreeding depression tends to increase under stressful conditions, we have very little understanding across most organisms how the level of inbreeding depression may change as a result of adaptation to stressors. In this work we examined the potential that inbreeding depression varied among lineages of Ipomoea purpurea artificially evolved to exhibit divergent levels of herbicide resistance. We examined inbreeding depression in a variety of fitness-related traits in both the growth chamber and in the field. We paired our examination of inbreeding depression in fitness-related traits with an examination of gene expression changes associated with the level of herbicide resistance, breeding history (inbred or outcrossed), and the interaction of the breeding system and the level of herbicide resistance. We found that, while inbreeding depression was present across many of the traits, lineages artificially selected for increased herbicide resistance often showed no evidence of inbreeding depression in the presence of herbicide, and in fact, showed evidence of outbreeding depression in some traits compared to non-selected control lines and lineages selected for increased herbicide susceptibility. Further, at the transcriptome level, the resistant selection lines had differing patterns of gene expression according to breeding type (inbred vs outcrossed) compared to the control and susceptible selection lines. Our data together indicate that inbreeding depression may be lessened in populations that are adapting to regimes of strong selection.


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