title: Allocation of reproductive effort to the male and female strategies in wind-pollinated plants.
abstract: Amaranthus and several other wind-pollinated species of plants are used to test some of the theoretical models of relative reproductive effort towards the male and female sexes. Consistent with these models, in self-compatible, monoecious Amaranthus, Chenopodium, Digitaria, Setaria, and Lepidium, female effort represented over 90% of the total reproductive effort. Also consistent with predictions, Lolium, a self-incompatible wind-pollinated species, was found to have about equal male and female effort. A method is described here that should prove useful in quantifying male and female effort in both wind and insect-pollinated species of plants.
authors.affiliation: Field Museum of Natural History, 60605, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Cliff
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lemen