Kin discrimination causes plastic responses in floral and clonal allocation

In this study, we quantified focal plant floral and clonal responses to kin by manipulating the relatedness of neighbours growing in shared pots in Mimulus guttatus. Specifically, focal plants were either a) selfed, and neighboured by selfed-sibling plants, b) outcrossed and neighboured by outcrossed-sibling plants, or c) outcrossed and neighboured by non-kin plants. For focal individuals in each treatment we measured various floral (e.g. flower number, corolla length, corolla width, date of first flowering), clonal (e.g. stolon number, length, width, and biomass) and vegetative (e.g. leaf size, stem thickness, and rosette biomass) at early (week 4), flowering (week 6), and late-life (week 9) stages., , , # Kin discrimination causes plastic responses in floral and clonal allocation

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Kin discrimination causes plastic responses in floral and clonal allocation

2: Author Information:
A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Jannice Friedman
Institution: Queen's University
Address: Kingston, ON, Canada
Email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

B. Associate or Co-Investigator Contact Information
Name: Isabeau Lewis
Institution: Queen's University
Address: Kingston, ON, Canada
Email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

3\. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): Jan-May 2022

1. Geographic location of data collection: Queen's University Phytotron, Kingston, ON, Canada
2. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: NSERC Discovery Grant to JF, Botanical Society of America Undergraduate Student Research Award to IL

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