植物生态学报 ›› 2011, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (12): 1290-1299.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1258.2011.01290

• 研究论文 • 上一篇    下一篇

喜树花序内性别表达及性别分配

徐申林, 刘文哲*()   

  1. 西北大学生命科学学院, 西部资源生物与现代生物技术教育部重点实验室, 西安 710069
  • 收稿日期:2011-05-17 接受日期:2011-11-07 出版日期:2011-05-17 发布日期:2011-12-15
  • 通讯作者: 刘文哲
  • 作者简介:*(E-mail:lwenzhe@nwu.edu.cn)

Intra-inflorescence sex expression and allocation in Camptotheca acuminata

XU Shen-Lin, LIU Wen-Zhe*()   

  1. Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
  • Received:2011-05-17 Accepted:2011-11-07 Online:2011-05-17 Published:2011-12-15
  • Contact: LIU Wen-Zhe

摘要:

花序内性别表达和性别分配的差异在被子植物中非常普遍。常见的变化模式是: 在顺次开放的花序内, 从早开的花到晚开的花, 生殖结构大小和数量依次减少, 晚开的花偏向雄性。通常认为资源竞争和位置效应是形成这种差异的主要原因。在喜树(Camptotheca acuminata)的聚伞花序内, 早开的头状花序在花序直径、小花直径、短雄蕊长度、坐果率、果序重量等方面与晚开的头状花序差异显著。通过去除喜树聚伞花序一级或一级和二级头状花序来控制花序内的资源分配, 从而分析影响喜树花序内花性状、性别分配及生殖能力的主要因子。结果显示, 去除部分头状花序后, 剩余头状花序的花序直径、小花直径明显增加, 短雄蕊长度明显缩短, 位置间差异消失; 而坐果率、果序重量的位置间差异依然显著。表明资源限制对花序直径、小花直径和短雄蕊长度等影响显著, 而坐果率和果序重量受位置效应影响明显。喜树雄全同株的性别分配可能是对特定生殖状况和资源状况适应的结果。

关键词: 位置效应, 喜树, 花序内差异, 资源竞争, 性别分配

Abstract:

Aims Variation in intra-inflorescence sex expression and allocation is a common phenomenon in Angiosperms. The typical pattern is that the size and number of reproductive structures decrease from early to late blooming flowers within the same inflorescence, and the late ones tend to male. Resource competition and architectural effects are regarded as the main causes of these variations. Within the cyme of Camptotheca acuminata, the early capitula demonstrate more significant differences in the diameters of capitulum and corolla, length of short stamen, fruit set rate, and infructescence mass than the late capitula. Our main objective is to determine the causes behind the intra-inflorescence sex expression and allocation variations in C. acuminata.
Methods The distribution of resources within inflorescences of C. acuminata was manipulated by removing the primary or primary and secondary capitula to determine the factors influencing flower sex allocation and reproductive capacity in an inflorescence.
Important findings After removing part of the capitula, the diameters of capitulum and corolla in the remaining capitula increased significantly, the length of short stamen decreased significantly, and the differences between positions disappeared. The differences, however, in fruit set and infructescence mass remained unchanged. This suggests that resource constraints rather than architectural effects have stronger influence on the diameters of capitulum and corolla as well as the length of short stamen, while architectural effects play a dominant role on fruit set and infructescence mass. The andromonoecy in C. acuminatamay be the result of adaptation to specific reproduction and resources competition.

Key words: architectural effects, Camptotheca acuminata, intra-in?orescence variation, resource competition, sex allocation