You’re right! Corrected. As where the extra resources are stored, I don’t know enough about botanic to tell, but here’s what they say in the paper: “First, plants that wait longer to flower may accumulate greater energy resources to invest in producing more seeds, and/or seeds that are better protected (Fenner 1985). (The latter scenario, involving better-protected seeds, seems less applicable to bamboos, whose ancestral fruit type is a caryopsis, i.e. fruits with seeds that are generally less well protected than those of many other flowering plants.) In bamboos, this investment might, for example, take the form of increased shoot production between masts”. So, at least from that paper, it doesn’t look like there’s a clear mechanistic explanation, aside from more bamboo.
You’re right! Corrected. As where the extra resources are stored, I don’t know enough about botanic to tell, but here’s what they say in the paper: “First, plants that wait longer to flower may accumulate greater energy resources to invest in producing more seeds, and/or seeds that are better protected (Fenner 1985). (The latter scenario, involving better-protected seeds, seems less applicable to bamboos, whose ancestral fruit type is a caryopsis, i.e. fruits with seeds that are generally less well protected than those of many other flowering plants.) In bamboos, this investment might, for example, take the form of increased shoot production between masts”. So, at least from that paper, it doesn’t look like there’s a clear mechanistic explanation, aside from more bamboo.