The consequences of delayed selfing by reproductive assurance for selection on flower size in mixed-mating species is relevant to understand the evolution of plant breeding systems.
Finding the factors that explain invasion success of species is a major objective in ecology. The combination of extensive data on fruit heteromorphism in Asteraceae and the largest global plant-naturalization database offered the unprecedented possibility to add a missing piece to the naturalizatio
Floral chemistry is hypothesized to be the product of natural selection, but researchers have just begun to consider the micro-evolution of these traits.