Differentiation in fructification percentage between two morphs of <i>Amomum tsaoko</i> (Zingiberaceae)

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  • Yang Yao-Wen
    The Center for Reproducing Fine Varieties of Chinese Medicinal Plants, Yunnan College of TCM Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Qian Zi-Gang
    The Center for Reproducing Fine Varieties of Chinese Medicinal Plants, Yunnan College of TCM
  • Li Ai-Rong
    Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Pu Chun-Xia
    The Center for Reproducing Fine Varieties of Chinese Medicinal Plants, Yunnan College of TCM Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Liu Xiao-Li
    The Center for Reproducing Fine Varieties of Chinese Medicinal Plants, Yunnan College of TCM
  • Guan Kai-Yun
    Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Amomum tsaoko is a flexistylous ginger. Flexistyly is a unique floral mechanism promoting outcrossing, which is known only in some species of Zingiberaceae till date. This is a pioneer report on flexistyly in A. tsaoko from the aspect of fructification percentage to clarify its influence on reproduction. We observed in 2007 and 2008 that the fructification percentage of the anaflexistyled and the cataflexistyled inflorescence were 14.89 ± 10.35% and 11.31 ± 7.91% respectively, with significant difference (d.f. = 141.920, t = 2.518, P = 0.013 < 0.05). The greatly significant difference between 2007 and 2008 were present in both the flower number (d.f. = 93, t = −2.819, P = 0.006 < 0.01) and the fructification percentage (d.f. = 93, t = −2.894, P = 0.005 < 0.01) of the cataflexistylous inflorescence. Although the two morphs were similar in morphological characteristics, there was some gender differentiation between them, showing a possibility that the anaflexistylous morph might function more as females and the cataflexistylous morph more as males. Reproduction of the cataflexistylous morph was significantly sensitive to change of environmental factors, in contrast to the anaflexistylous morph, thus the yield varied between the abundant year (2008) and the off year (2007).

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  • Breeding Science

    Breeding Science 66 (3), 391-395, 2016

    Japanese Society of Breeding

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