Pollination and plant reproductive success of two ploidy levels in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.)

This dataset includes hand pollination, honey bee pollination and pollen germination experiments described in the article \"Pollination and plant reproductive success of two ploidy levels in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.)\", published in Frontiers in Plant Science (DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.720069). In a series of hand pollination experiments, the influence of visitation rate (10, 20, 40, 80 pollinated florets per flower head) on the seed number per pollinated floret and seed number per flower head were investigated, respectively. The influence of flowering stage (early, middle, and full flowering) on the seed number per pollinated floret was also investigated. Self-incompatibility was studied by comparing the seed number per flower head under self-pollination and interploidy pollination treatments. In order to study the autonomous pollination, we compared the seed number per flower head between self-pollination and control treatment. In the honey bee pollination experiments, we i...