Outbreeding Mechanisms in Flowering Plants : An evolutionary perspective from Darwin onwards.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The effects of inbreeding and outbreeding -- 2.1 What Darwin wanted to achieve -- 2.2 What hampered Darwin -- 2.3 Darwin's experimental designs -- 2.4 Inheritance -- 2.5 What Darwin achieved -- 2.6 Inbreeding -- 2.6.1 Darwin's evidence -- 2.6.2 Current evidence -- 2.7 Genetics of inbreeding depression -- 3. Means of fertilisation -- 3.1 Darwin's evidence -- 3.2 Current evidence -- 4. Outbreeding mechanisms -- 4.1 Origin of self-incompatibility -- 4.2 Evolution of homomorphic systems -- 4.2.1 Evolution of gametophytic systems -- 4.2.1.1 Single locus -- 4.2.1.2 Multiple locus -- 4.2.1.3 Breakdown of gametophytic systems -- 4.2.2 Evolution of sporophytic systems -- 4.2.2.1 Single locus -- 4.2.2.2 Multiple locus -- 4.2.2.3 Breakdown of sporophytic systems -- 4.2.3 The possibility of polygenic systems -- 4.3 Evolution of heteromorphic systems -- 4.3.1 Mechanism of heteromorphic self-incompatibility -- 4.3.2 Breakdown of heteromorphic systems -- 4.3.3 Enantiomorphy -- 4.3.4 Monoecy, dioecy, gynodioecy and androdioecy -- 4.3.4.1 Genetical determination of -- 4.4 Comparison of systems -- 5. Some possibilities for research -- Appendix -- References -- Author Index -- Genera and species Index -- Topic Index.

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