parthenocarpy

Parthenocarpy and apomixis of willow species

During the research of seed productivity of 6 willow species growing in Saratov region the ability to the parthenocarpic fruit formation was found out for the first time. Correlation was not found out between the ability of Salix plants to parthenocarpy and the ability of reproduction with the help of gametophyte apomixis.