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Plants, 2023 Yams (Dioscorea spp.) are a pantropical genus located worldwide that constitute an important source of nutrients and pharmaceutical substances. Some Dioscorea crop species are widely grown in West Africa. One species that is mainly cultivated in Cameroon
Florence Ngo Ngwe, Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev
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Confirming Dioecy in Isoëtes butleri
American Fern Journal, 2005 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Turner, Nicholas A, Taylor, W. Carl
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Differentiation during fig ontogeny suggests opposing selection by mutualists
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Dioecy allows separation of female and male functions and therefore facilitates separate co‐evolutionary pathways with pollinators and seed dispersers. In monoecious figs, pollinators' offspring develop inside the syconium by consuming some of the seeds.
Silvia B. Lomáscolo, Douglas J. Levey
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The Red Queen unveils the sexual and mating strategies of flowers
Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2026.Although the conventional wisdom is that floral traits of plants evolved in concert with their mutualistic pollinators, here we showed that several key sexual and mating traits of plants, which modulate their outcrossing strategy, evolved in response to the pressure exerted by their antagonistic insect herbivores.
Carlos Roberto Fonseca +2 more
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Rapid dissolution of dioecy by experimental evolution
bioRxiv, 2019 Evolutionary transitions from hermaphroditism to dioecy have been frequent in flowering plants, but recent analysis indicates that reversions from dioecy to hermaphroditism have also been common.
G. Cossard +4 more
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, 2015 Dioecy, the sexual system in which male and female organs are found in separate individuals, allows greater specialization for sex-specific functions and can be advantageous under various ecological and environmental conditions.
Sabath, Niv +9 more
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PlantsSexual dimorphism in dioecious plants serves as a critical adaptive strategy in complex environments. This study systematically investigated the effects of topographic factors (elevation, slope, aspect, and convexity), soil nutrients (C, N, P), and ...
Dan Liao +5 more
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Evolution of crop phenotypic spaces through domestication
New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 3, Page 1948-1963, May 2026.Summary We used domestication as an in vivo replicated experiment to investigate how divergent selection has shaped the evolution of multivariate phenotypic spaces. We measured 11–57 qualitative and quantitative traits in 13 species, either unique or shared between species, and established a framework for cross‐species comparisons. Our results revealed
Arthur Wojcik +18 more
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Ecology Letters, 2019 Dioecy has often broken down in flowering plants, yielding functional hermaphroditism. We reasoned that evolutionary transitions from dioecy to functional hermaphroditism must overcome an inertia of sexual dimorphism, because modified males or females ...
Luis Santos del Blanco +2 more
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A specific insertion of a solo-LTR characterizes the Y chromosome of Bryonia dioica (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Relatively few species of flowering plants are dioecious and even fewer are known to have sex chromosomes. Current theory posits that homomorphic sex chromosomes, such as found in Bryonia dioica (Cucurbitaceae), offer insight into the early ...
Silber, Martina V. +8 more
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