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Sex expression, breeding system and pollinators of Piper caldense (PIPERACEAE) in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

open access: yesActa Biológica Colombiana, 2017
Neotropical Piper species have bisexual flowers. Such reproductive trait is considered basal in this pantropical genus. However, neotropical species having unisexual (staminate) flowers along with bisexual ones have also been reported.
Milene Faria Vieira   +1 more
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Floral development and the formation of functionally unisexual flowers in Xanthoceras sorbifolium (Sapindaceae), a morphologically andromonoecious tree endemic to northern China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Key message Xanthoceras sorbifolium is apparently andromonoecious but exhibits a cryptically monoecious breeding system. Sexual differentiation in male and functional female flowers occurs 2 weeks before flowering.
Zhou, Qingyuan   +4 more
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Reproductive biology characteristic of Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae)

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2012
Jatropha curcas belongs to family of Euphorbiaceae, and is an important biological tree species for diesel production. The current descriptions of the phenotypic traits for male and female flowers are not comprehensive and there have been no reports ...
Xiu-Rong Wang, Gui-Jie Ding
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The diversity of pistillate flowers and its taxonomic value to the classification of Daphniphyllum (Daphniphyllaceae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Daphniphyllum is the sole genus of the family Daphniphyllaceae consisting of dioecious species with inconspicuous reduced unisexual mostly caducous flowers.
SHEUE, Chiou-Rong   +3 more
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Transcriptomic insights into unisexual flower development in Cannabis sativa: conserved gene networks and perianth identity in male flowers

open access: yes
Abstract Background: Cannabis sativa , a dioecious species characterized by striking sexual dimorphism and exceptional sexual plasticity, presents a powerful model for exploring floral development and the evolution of dioecy.
Orly Lavie   +8 more
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Female flowers and systematic position of Picrodendraceae (Euphorbiaceae s.l., Malpighiales) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This is the first comparative study of floral structure of the recently established new family Picrodendraceae (part of Euphorbiaceae s.l.) in Malpighiales. Nine species of eight (out of ca. 28) genera were studied.
Forster, P., Sutter, D., Endress, P.
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Genome-wide analysis of MADS-box genes and their expression patterns in unisexual flower development in dioecious spinach

open access: yesScientific Reports
Evolution of unisexual flowers involves extreme changes in floral development. Spinach is one of the species to discern the formation and evolution of dioecy. MADS-box gene family is involved in regulation of floral organ identity and development and in many other plant developmental processes.
Mahpara Fatima   +3 more
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The official presentation to science of a new species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae: Hechtioideae) from the Pacific Lowlands in Mexico

open access: yesBotan‪ical Sciences
Background: Hechtia is characterized by its terrestrial, succulent rosettes, dioecy, and unisexual, dimorphic flowers, mainly fragrant. The paucity and fragmentary herbarium material limit the species recognition but living material reveals diagnostic ...
Ivón Ramírez-Morillo   +4 more
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3-46 Hamamelidaceae, witch-hazel family [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Trees or shrubs, ranging throughout eastern and tropical Asia; of the 120 species, a single common understory shrub reaches NS. Flowers are regular, perfect or unisexual. Corolla is 4–5-merous.
Hill, Nicholas M.   +2 more
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