Mixed Mating System Are Regulated by Fecundity in Shorea curtisii (Dipterocarpaceae) as Revealed by Comparison under Different Pollen Limited Conditions

PLoS One. 2015 May 4;10(5):e0123445. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123445. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

The maintenance of mixed mating was studied in Shorea curtisii, a dominant and widely distributed dipterocarp species in Southeast Asia. Paternity and hierarchical Bayesian analyses were used to estimate the parameters of pollen dispersal kernel, male fecundity and self-pollen affinity. We hypothesized that partial self incompatibility and/or inbreeding depression reduce the number of selfed seeds if the mother trees receive sufficient pollen, whereas reproductive assurance increases the numbers of selfed seeds under low amounts of pollen. Comparison of estimated parameters of self-pollen affinity between high density undisturbed and low density selectively logged forests indicated that self-pollen was selectively excluded from mating in the former, probably due to partial self incompatibility or inbreeding depression until seed maturation. By estimating the self-pollen affinity of each mother tree in both forests, mother trees with higher amount of self-pollen indicated significance of self-pollen affinity with negative estimated value. The exclusion of self-fertilization and/or inbreeding depression during seed maturation occurred in the mother trees with large female fecundity, whereas reproductive assurance increased self-fertilization in the mother trees with lower female fecundity.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bayes Theorem
  • Crosses, Genetic
  • Dipterocarpaceae / physiology*
  • Fertility / physiology*
  • Inbreeding
  • Microsatellite Repeats / genetics
  • Pollen / physiology*
  • Reproduction / physiology
  • Seeds / physiology
  • Self-Fertilization
  • Trees / physiology

Associated data

  • Dryad/10.5061/dryad.7K434

Grants and funding

The study was partly supported by a Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS-FRIM) joint project entitled “Improvement of selective logging techniques for the conservation of biodiversity in hill dipterocarp forests of the Peninsular Malaysia” (C-5-2), a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS No. 24405034) and the Global Environment Research Account for National Institutes, Ministry of the Environment, Japan (E1P09).