caa a22 4500 477053300 CHVBK 20180405111343.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02221397 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02221397 Ehlenfeldt M. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Rutgers Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center, Lake Oswego Road, 08019, Chatsworth, NJ, USA aut Sequential style removal in highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum L.: Effects on fertilization success and seed germination [Elektronische Daten] [M. Ehlenfeldt] Plants of the blueberry cultivar Bluecrop were pollinated with pollen from the cultivars Sierra and Duke under controlled conditions. After pollination, styles were removed at 6 h intervals from 1.25 days to 4.00 days. An increase in the number of developed seed was seen across time, ranging from 1 seed per fruit (s/f) at 1.25 days, to a peak of 63.4 s/f at 3.25 days in 1992, and from 0.1 s/f at 1.25 days to 56.0 s/f at 3.75 days in 1993. Germination tests of 200-seed seedlots of Bluecrop×Sierra exhibited a significant trend toward earlier germination by seed from earlier style removal times. Seed weight measured in the cross Bluecrop×Duke, however, showed decreasing weights with longer style removal times, suggesting that seed size may time of germination. A multiple regression of seed size and stylar removal time against time of germination showed that style removal time was the only significant source of variation for germination time. Results suggest that pollen vigor, as reflected in the speed of growth down the style, may have a direct bearing on characteristics of the seed and subsequent plant. Springer-Verlag, 1996 Vaccinium corymbosum nationallicence Pollen competition nationallicence Seed set nationallicence Germination nationallicence Sexual Plant Reproduction Springer-Verlag 9/3(1996-05-01), 170-174 0934-0882 9:3<170 1996 9 497 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02221397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02221397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ehlenfeldt M. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Rutgers Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center, Lake Oswego Road, 08019, Chatsworth, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sexual Plant Reproduction Springer-Verlag 9/3(1996-05-01), 170-174 0934-0882 9:3<170 1996 9 497 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer