New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Fruit-setting in Sophora microphylla Ait.

J. A. Rattenbury

Department of Botany, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract Observation of fruit-set in Sophora microphylla Ait. suggests that differences in both natural populations and ornamental plantings depend on the extent of self-pollination which can occur. This appears to be regulated by the time of style elongation which, if it occurs before anthesis, effectively prevents selfing. A single gene difference could account for the observed variation.

Received 11 May 1979
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1979, Vol. 17:423

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