The quest for molecular regulation underlying unisexual flower development [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 The understanding of the molecular mechanisms responsible for the making of a unisexual flower has been a long-standing quest in plant biology. Plants with male and female flowers can be divided mainly into two categories: dioecious and monoecious, and ...
Rómulo eSobral +3 more
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Programmed Cell Death Facilitates the Formation of Unisexual Male and Female Flowers in Persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) [PDF]
Agronomy, 2020 Most varieties of persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) are gynoecious, while just a few are either monoecious, androgynomonoecious, or androecious. Persimmon flowers initially contain the original androecium and gynoecium followed by arrest of either ...
Liyuan Wang +8 more
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The quest for epigenetic regulation underlying unisexual flower development in Cucumis melo [PDF]
Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2017 Background Melon (Cucumis melo) is an important vegetable crop from the Cucurbitaceae family and a reference model specie for sex determination, fruit ripening and vascular fluxes studies.
David Latrasse +12 more
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Sex-Related Gene Network Revealed by Transcriptome Differentiation of Bisexual and Unisexual Flowers of Orchid Cymbidium tortisepalum. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 Despite extensive research on orchid reproductive strategies, the genetic studies of sex differentiation in the orchid family are still lacking. In this study, we compared three sexual phenotypes of Cymbidium tortisepalum bisexual flowers as well as ...
Ma X +8 more
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Role of floral organ identity genes in the development of unisexual flowers of Quercus suber L. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 Supplementary information accompanies this paper at doi:10.1038/s41598-017-10732-0Monoecious species provide an excellent system to study the specific determinants that underlie male and female flower development.
Sobral R, Costa MMR.
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Unisexual flower initiation in the monoecious Quercus suber L.: a molecular approach [PDF]
Tree Physiology, 2020 Several plant species display a temporal separation of the male and female flower organ development to enhance outbreeding; however, little is known regarding the genetic mechanisms controlling this temporal separation.
Andrade, Luís +6 more
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Electronic supplementary material from Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites [PDF]
, 2023 In dioecious populations, males and females may evolve different trait values to increase fitness through their respective sexual functions. Because hermaphrodites express both sexual functions, resolving sexual conflict is potentially more difficult for
John R. Pannell (10910975) +1 more
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Characterization of unisexual flower development in the endangered mahogany tree Swietenia macrophylla King. (Meliaceae) [PDF]
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015 The selection of candidate plus trees of desirable phenotypes from tropical forest trees and the rapid devastation of the natural environments in which these trees are found have created the need for a more detailed knowledge of the floral and ...
Gouvea, CF, Dornelas, MC, Martinelli, AP
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The arrest of development of useless reproductive organs in the unisexual flower of Vitis vinifera ssp silvestris [PDF]
Acta Horticulturae, 2003 Sex differentiation of unisexual flowers of monoecious and dioecious species is an interesting problem of developmental biology. At early stages of development the flowers of the great majority of these species are hermaphrodite and the expression of ...
Caporali E. +4 more
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Architectural traits constrain the evolution of unisexual flowers and sexual segregation within inflorescences: an interspecific approach [PDF]
, 2019 Male and female unisexual flowers have repeatedly evolved from the ancestral bisexual flowers in different lineages of flowering plants. This sex specialization in different flowers often occurs within inflorescences.
Anderberg, Arne Alfred, +4 more
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