A team of botanists in Japan have overturned decades-old assumptions about how cold stress leads to pollen sterility in rice.
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Diversity and constraints in the floral morphological evolution of Leandra s.str.
Processes related to floral diversification and the relation of floral diversification to speciation are largely unaccounted for in the Melastomataceae. Reginato and Michelangeli describe the floral diversity of Leandra...
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Tapetum and middle layer control of male fertility in kiwifruit
Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) male-sterile anthers abort at the microspore-stage, but the role sporophytic tissues in controlling male-sterility is unknown. Falasca et al. show that the tapetum and middle-layer...
