Simón-Porcar Violeta, Muñoz-Pajares A Jesús, Arroyo Juan, Johnson Steven D
Department of Plant Biology and Ecology University of Seville Seville E-41080 Spain.
Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg 3209 South Africa.
Appl Plant Sci. 2024 Oct 11;12(6):e11618. doi: 10.1002/aps3.11618. eCollection 2024 Nov-Dec.
Heterostyly in plants promotes pollen transfer between floral morphs, because female and male sex organs are located at roughly reciprocal heights within the flowers of each morph. Reciprocity indices, which assess the one-dimensional variation in the height of sex organs, are used to define the phenotypic structure of heterostyly in plant populations and to make inferences about selection. Other reciprocal stylar polymorphisms (e.g., enantiostyly) may function in a similar manner to heterostyly. In-depth assessment of their potential fit with pollinators requires accounting for the multidimensional variation in the location of sex organs.
We have adapted the existing reciprocity indices used for heterostylous plant populations to incorporate multidimensional data. We illustrate the computation of the adapted and original indices in the freely available R package FlowerMate.
FlowerMate provides fast computation of reliable indices to facilitate understanding of the evolution and function of the full diversity of reciprocal polymorphisms.
植物的花柱异长促进了花型间的花粉传递，因为在每个花型的花朵中，雌性和雄性生殖器官位于大致相对的高度。互作指数用于评估生殖器官高度的一维变化，以定义植物种群中花柱异长的表型结构并推断选择情况。其他互作花柱多态性（如对花柱异长）可能与花柱异长以类似方式发挥作用。深入评估它们与传粉者的潜在适配性需要考虑生殖器官位置的多维变化。
我们对用于花柱异长植物种群的现有互作指数进行了调整，以纳入多维数据。我们在免费的R包FlowerMate中展示了调整后的指数和原始指数的计算方法。
FlowerMate提供了可靠指数的快速计算，以促进对互作多态性全部多样性的进化和功能的理解。
