Climate Impact: Phenology & Reproductive Biology of Solanum nigrum L.

Phenology is the study of the response of living organism to seasonal and climatic changes of the environment in which they live. Reproductive biology provides information on life forms, rate of flowering, type of breeding system, plant pollinator interaction, fruits and seeds breeding system, fruit and seed out put, seed germination, seedling establishment, over all fitness and survival of the species. Reproductive biology studies thus have to be a vital feature of all conservation projects. Therefore study of reproductive biology is particularly important. Information of all these aspects is required not only for a comprehensive understanding as the efficiency of breeding system of a species and its evolutionary success but also for effective optimization of yield, conservation and rational genetic improvement. Experiments are required to obtain baseline information on fruit and seed set under good environmental conditions.