New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Parental strategies of angiosperms

David G. Lloyd

Department of Botany, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract This paper considers strategies for optimally deploying the parental investment that a plant makes during one reproductive session. The subdivision of a plant's reproductive effort into many flowers and fruits causes plants to show distinctive parental strategies. The distribution of gametes is far more complicated in plants than in animals. The following classes of strategies are discussed:

New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1979, Vol. 17:595-606

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