Lin Chen's research while affiliated with University of Western Australia and other places

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Western Australian Drosera L. species include one annual and many tuberous and pygmy perennials. In 20 species or subspecies, 17 taxa were self-incompatible (SI) and three were self-compatible (SC), as assessed by patterns of seed set and pollen tube growth. All SI species were clonal (tubers or gemmae), but two SC species were clonal (gemmae) and...

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... geitonogamous selfing). Although clonal plants can be predicted as rather SI, as suggested by a study on Australian Droseraceae (Chen et al. 1997), SI or SC association with clonality seems to be dependent also on a particular clonal strategy, as documented by comparative studies of the closely related species Eichhornia azurea and E. crassipes (Barrett 2015 and citations therein). Geitonogamy is often considered a consequence of traits related to higher plant attractiveness, e.g. ...