Meade, Conor, Ryan, Eimear M., Mulllins, Ewen and Downes, Martin (2020) Successful pollen dispersal modulates with flowering phase in field-hybridizing grasses. Biology and Environment, 120. pp. 51-60. ISSN 0791-7945
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Abstract
Gene-flow between intensively and extensively farmed grass populations is an ongoing feature of agroecological landscapes, especially in Atlantic northwestern. Europe. Adjoining population boundaries and in-field admixture of grass types via winter forage dispersal facilitates both in-field hybridisation and recruitment of immigrant seedlings. Here we examine the paternal hybridisation of one grass species (Lolium multiflorum, pollen donor) into the population of a second, fully inter-fertile, grass species (L. perenne, pollen receptor) via pollen-mediated gene-flow in an experimental field plot. Using weekly counts of successful pollination in 470 individual receptor plants based on paternity analysis in 4281 germinated F-1 seedlings, we determined the extent of evident hybridisation (hybrid progeny that show some paternal morphology) and silent hybridisation (hybrid progeny that show no paternal morphology) over the course of floral anthesis. Co-dominant morphological traits in F-1 progeny underestimated microsatellite-validated genetic hybridisation by approximately 30%, while background pollen competition dampened the overall rate of successful pollen donor pollination. Overall pollination from the donor plot followed a composite decline model. However over the course of floral anthesis the successful pollination pattern was changeable, and showed varying levels of affinity to three tested decline distribution models.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Gene Flow; Plant; Wind; Microsatellite; Introgression, Biodiversity; Invasions; Release; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Biology |
Item ID: | 13866 |
Identification Number: | 10.3318/BIOE.2020.06 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Conor Meade |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2021 12:30 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Biology and Environment |
Publisher: | Royal Irish Academy |
Refereed: | No |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13866 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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