Article Dans Une Revue Conservation Biology Année : 2008

Consequences of low mate availability in the rare self-incompatible species Brassica insularis.

Résumé

Self-incompatibility systems prevent self-fertilization in angiosperms. Although numerous S alleles are usually maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection, the number of S alleles can be low in small populations, which limits mate availability and reduces fecundity in endangered populations of self-incompatible plants. Despite the increasing evidence of the negative effect of self-incompatibility in small populations, the direct link between the number and the distribution of S alleles and their reproductive consequences has been rarely reported. Brassica insularis is a rare self-incompatible species with medium to very small populations. Results of a previous study showed that the smallest population has very few S alleles. We investigated whether reduced mate availability affects reproduction in this species. We compared the pollination success and the fruit set in 4 populations differing in population size and number of S alleles. Our results suggest that reproduction may be negatively affected by the low S-allele diversity in the smallest population. Nevertheless, other populations also had reduced fruit set that could not be attributed to self-incompatibility alone.

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hal-00285235 , version 1 (05-06-2008)

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Sylvain Glémin, Christophe Petit, Sandrine Maurice, Agnès Mignot. Consequences of low mate availability in the rare self-incompatible species Brassica insularis.. Conservation Biology, 2008, 22 (1), pp.216-21. ⟨10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00864.x⟩. ⟨hal-00285235⟩
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