I keep coming across classic articles on the subject. So if you’re one of the few people (like me!) who hasn’t seen these before, I’ll just drop them off here every now and then for perusal. Feel free to drop off others if you have them.
Saunders 2012 - The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in Annonaceae.pdf (287.6 KB)
Holy magnoliid fruit Batman! Here’s a reference from 1974 
Gottsberger 1974 - The structure and function of the primitive Angiosperm flower.pdf (927.4 KB)
Pardon but what species of bee has sex initiated by the male?
Drones don’t have pollen collection hairs.
Sex is initiated by new emerging Queens.
They flee the hive flying fast & high.
Only the fastest strongest male gets to mate, then immediately dies.
Bees are not an Asimina Triloba pollinator.
Hum. Asimina Triloba pollinator?
Thought it was flies & beetle only?
As far as floral anatomy, I have studied many species & the enzymes responsible for the hormones involved.
In many species I can control timing of male & female functions independently.
I hope to adapt this knowledge to Asimina Triloba.
Hoping to be able to achieve simultaneous (male/female) functions for improved self-fertile nature.
Yup, I agree, blury!
A type of wild bee?
Asimina triloba.
Why?
Proper names are to be Capitalized.
It’s a grammar rule.
I have always capitalized the entire scientific name for decades.
Nobody ever said anything until now.
Facilitating article.
This is helpful, thanks.
It is a Latin binomial.
The convention for any scientific name is to capitalize only the genus, not the species. Usually it’s also italicized (Asimina triloba) but I’m not sure if that’s as much a hard & fast rule as the capitalization.
Geezer
Okay
Richard, I agree with the article.
In fact one of the things I will be doing with:
Asimina triloba
Is nutritionally up regulating gibberellins.
This will increase self-fertile pollinating from (11% to 13%) to a much higher level.
As well as increase fruit size & quality.
Responsiveness can be selected for will each generation of inbreeding.
Resulting in genetically stable heirloom varietals of superior quality which are self-fertile.
I have done it with a few hundred things so far.
My cantaloupe being the biggest success.
Asimina triloba deserves to be the next success.
Just confirming Richard is correct on that one. Standard scientific naming procedure is to capitalize Genus and use lower case for species.
If you are able to make a “true to seed” pawpaw, you’ll definitely have takers if it’s a good one!
Most likely Asimina triloba Susquehanna is a self pollination of BEF53.
Having both quality & genetic markers diversity.
I plan to both inbred it to an heirloom,
as well as interspecific hybrid it with other Annonaceae starting with Fernandez Custard Apple.
Planning on crossing (Rappahannock x Susquehanna), then doing self pollination inbreeding while upregulating gibberellins.
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