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Plant Reproductive Biology Michael G. Simpson. What is it? Study of sexual and asexual reproduction Pollination mechanisms Gene flow Genetic variation Propagule dispersal Why study it? Insight into adaptive significance & homology of systematic characters
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Plant Reproductive BiologyMichael G. Simpson What is it? Study of sexual and asexual reproduction Pollination mechanisms Gene flow Genetic variation Propagule dispersal Why study it? Insight into adaptive significance & homology of systematic characters Insight into delimitation of species and subspecies.
Sexual Reproduction Non-seed plants Seed plants: Pollination - transfer of pollen from microsporangia to stigma (angiosperms) or ovule (gymnosperms) Wind pollination - ancestral (all gymnosperms) Animal pollination - derived for angiosperms Some angiosperms secondarily wind pollinated Fertilization - fusion of sperm and egg ––> embryo (new sporophyte)
Strategy of animal pollination:Attractant & Reward Attractant Visual perianth stamens (e.g., Myrtaceae, Mimosoideae) staminodes (e.g., Zingiberaceae, Cannaceae) corona (e.g., Narcissus) inflorescence Olfactory - usu. from perianth sweet rotten (foul/fetid) - e.g., fly pollinated flowers
Strategy of animal pollination:Attractant & Reward Reward Nectar Pollen Waxes Resins or “Trick” instead of a “Treat” Insect trapped (Aristolochia) or drowned (Nymphaea sp.) Mimicry E.g., fooling male insect into “mating” with orchid
Pollination Mechanisms INSECT (entomophily) Bees (melittophily/hymenopterophyly): fls. showy, colorful, fragrant, with: nectar guides landing platforms Butterflies (psychophily): fls showy, colorful, fragrant no nectar guides long tubes or spurs
Pollination Mechanisms Moths (phalaenophily): large, white, fragrant no nectar guides usually tubes or spurs
Pollination Mechanisms Flies (sapromyiophily) maroon / brown in color foul smelling (like rotting flesh)
Pollination Mechanisms Birds (ornithophily): red (often, not always) tubular (often)
Pollination Mechanisms Bats (cheiropterophily): nocturnal anthesis large, colorful or white produce copious nectar or pollen
Pollination Mechanisms Wind (anemophily): flowers small, numerous, often unisexual perianth absent or non-showy flowers often produced in mass
Pollination Mechanisms Water (hydrophily):
Breeding systems Outbreeding versus Inbreeding vs. in-between
Breeding systems Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy: How is it promoted? 1) Plant sex: dioecy (incl. gynodioecy, androdioecy, trioecy)
Breeding systems Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy: 2) Difference in timing of floral parts = dichogamy protandry - male first protogyny - female first
Breeding systems Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy: 3) Spatial separation of anthers and stigmas = hercogamy heterostyly: different style/stigma & correlated anther heights
Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy: 3) Spatial separation of anthers and stigmas = hercogamy enantiostyly: left & right-handed flowers
Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy: 3) Spatial separation of anthers and stigmas = hercogamy movement hercogamy: trigger mechanisms
Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy: 3) Spatial separation of anthers and stigmas = hercogamy movement hercogamy: e.g., stigma movement Diplacus [Mimulus] aurantiacus (Phyrmaceae)
Folding of style best explained as adaptation to reduce interference in bird pollination
Outbreeding = outcrossing / allogamy / xenogamy:4) Self-incompatibility Genetically determined, inability for fertilization to occur between gametes derived from one individual.
Inbreeding = selfing autogamy (w/in 1 flower) & geitonogamy (between fls. of 1 indiv.) Selective advantage: ensures propagule production Disadvantage: reduced to absent genetic variability allautogamy: both outcrossing & inbreeding e.g., Viola, Clarkia: two flower types: chasmogamous flowers - normal, open cleistogamous flowers - remain closed
Fruit/seed dispersal Wind - samaras, winged seeds Water - e. g., Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae) Explosive dehiscence Self (Autochory, e. g., Arachis hypogaea) Animal
Asexual Reproduction Vegetative reproduction: ramets Rhizomes Bulbs, bulbels Corms, cormels Plantlets
Asexual Reproduction Agamospermy - seed production without fertilization Parthenogenesis (diploid egg) Adventive polyembryony (non-egg diploid cell)
Polyploidy – evolution of multiple sets of chromosomes; major mechanism of speciation.
Hybridization in plants Common Can produce sterile, vegetatively reproducing species (e. g., certain cacti)
Testing for breeding mechanisms A B C D 1) Control + + + + 2) Caged, self-pollinated - + + + 3) Caged, left alone - - + + 4) Emasculated, caged - - - + 5) Caged, emascul., outcrossed + + + + What is the breeding mechanisms for species A, B, C, D?