This study showed that, on average, approximately three fruiting sites were lost early in the crop's reproductive phase and four fruiting sites towards the end.
Concurrent with these increases in vegetative growth, the removal treatments delayed fruiting and decreased pod yields, but had no effects on pod size.
The diaspores were distributed under fruiting plants of the same species to simulate natural conditions under which they are found by ants and vertebrates.
Ants do not disperse seeds to a long distance, however, because they tend to forage from fruiting plants close to their nests.
We thus propose a simple method that involves monitoring flowers only at the first positions on a few fruiting branches.
These large aggregates differentiated into the dome-like arrangement known as the fruiting body.
This leads the relative spatial distribution of fruiting trees to be aggregated.
Their makers distributed these symbols around a central point or a central image of the ruler as a mature, fruiting maize plant.
