Overcoming the pollination barrier through artificial pollination in the Wild Nutmeg Knema attenuata (Myristicaceae), an endemic tree of the Western Ghats, India
| العنوان: | Overcoming the pollination barrier through artificial pollination in the Wild Nutmeg Knema attenuata (Myristicaceae), an endemic tree of the Western Ghats, India |
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| المؤلفون: | Koranapallil Bahuleyan Rameshkumar, Murugan Govindakurup Govind, Mathew Dan |
| المصدر: | Journal of Threatened Taxa, Vol 11, Iss 12, Pp 14569-14575 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | fruit setting, biology, Pollination, lcsh:QH1-199.5, Pollination management, Nutmeg, seed germinator, syrphid flies, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, lcsh:General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, biology.organism_classification, Myristicaceae, thrips, Tree (data structure), lcsh:QH540-549.5, Botany, Animal Science and Zoology, lcsh:Ecology, Knema attenuata, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| الوصف: | The barrier to pollination and pollinator assemblage were investigated in Knema attenuata, a dioecious tree species endemic to the Western Ghats of India. It occupies an intermediate canopy stratum of the low and mid-elevation wet evergreen forests. In order to observe floral display, insect foraging and fruit development, four populations of K. attenuata were selected. The population diagram of each population was constructed by marking one female tree as the centre and male trees available at different radii from the female tree. Direct observations and swap net trapping were used to sample insects in the canopy during the flowering season of 2016 and 2017. Knema attenuata exhibited generalised pollination through diverse insects: thysanopterans (thrips), coleopterans (beetles), halictid bees, and dipterans (syrphid and phorid flies), where thrips played the major role. On analysing the floral display, it was found that the male flowers provided no rewards and thus attracted less pollinators than the female flowers. Among the four populations studied, three showed more than 70% fruit setting and the rate of abscission in flowers and young fruits were negligible. One population was without fruit setting and trials on artificial pollination resulted in fruit setting. A very low frequency of seed germination was observed in natural conditions which was enhanced by a seed germinator. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0974-7907 0974-7893 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::63cd54f7c07ec1c7903c6ae08abc3531 https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4824 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....63cd54f7c07ec1c7903c6ae08abc3531 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 09747907 09747893 |
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