ERC Starting Grant · 2022
The scope for sexual selection in plants
The SEXIPLANTS project aims at providing a comprehensive empirical test for plants of the sexual selection theory, and decipher the mechanisms underlying sexual selection in plants. Sexual selection, acting through competition for the access to mates and their gametes, successfully explained numerous reproductive strategies in animals. Sexual selection typically emerges when females produce fewer numbers of larger gametes than males – a situation called anisogamy – which fosters competition among males for accessing the rare ovules. Sexual selection theory should thus be universally valid for all sexually reproducing anisogamous organisms encompassing plants. While the idea that sexual…
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