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ovule usurpation — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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ovule usurpation

Scope: reproduction

Papers: 3 | Mentions: 3

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Knowledge graph centered on ovule usurpation with 69 nodes and 163 connections. Top connected: Hummingbird, Bombus, Ipomopsis, Delphinium, I. aggregata.

Definition

Loss of ovules to unfit heterospecific pollen that successfully reaches and occupies ovules but fails to produce viable offspring

Publications (3)

Phylogeny does not predict the outcome of heterospecific pollen–pistil interactions in a species-rich alpine plant community

2025American Journal of Botanymeasured

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

Heterospecific pollen deposition in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>: linking stigmatic pollen loads to reproductive output in the field

2016Annals of Botanyreferenced

Related Concepts (10)

plant-pollinator mutualism

process5 shared papers

self-incompatibility

mechanism3 shared papers

heterospecific pollen transfer

process3 shared papers

allelopathy

process2 shared papers

co-flowering patterns

phenomenon2 shared papers

environmental drivers

framework2 shared papers

flower color

measurement2 shared papers

fitness consequences

theory1 shared paper

floral resources

measurement1 shared paper

phylogenetic distance

measurement1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

I. aggregata

Hummingbird

Ipomopsis aggregata

Polemoniaceae3 papers

Delphinium barbeyi

Ranunculaceae3 papers

Ipomopsis

Polemoniaceae3 papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae3 papers

Delphinium nuttallianum

Ranunculaceae3 papers

purple loosestrife

Phleum pratense

Poaceae2 papers

Mimulus guttatus

Phrymaceae2 papers