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Post-floral Erection of Stalks Provides Insight into the Evolution of Fruit Orientation and Its Effects on Seed Dispersal

That stalks reorient after flowering to face upwards is a common phenomenon in many flowering plants, indicating the potential importance of fruit orientation on seed dispersal. But this idea has not been subject to an empirical test. We examined this hypothesis by analysing the evolutionary correla...

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Autores principales: Niu, Yang, Zhou, Zhuo, Sha, Wen, Sun, Hang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26832830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20146