The effect of flower position on variation and covariation in floral traits in a wild hermaphrodite plant 英文参考文献.docVIP

Zhao et al. BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10:91 /1471-2229/10/91 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access The effect of flower position on variation and Research article covariation in floral traits in a wild hermaphrodite plant Zhi-Gang Zhao1,2, Guo-Zhen Du*2 and Shuang-Quan Huang*1 Abstract Background: Floral traits within plants can vary with flower position or flowering time. Within an inflorescence, sexual allocation of early produced basal flowers is often female-biased while later produced distal flowers are male-biased. Such temporal adjustment of floral resource has been considered one of the