Climate change can have widespread and devastating impacts, but little is known about the effects of this change on the genetics of natural populations. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Welt et al. aimed to...
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Temporal variation in gender in an annual plant
The widespread tendency towards declining fruit set from first to last flowers on plants may contribute to temporal variation in allocation optima.
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Live! It’s The Pollination Show!
A new paper in Annals of Botany shows live images of pollen behaviour during pollination.
AJ Cann
Physical mapping of a male-sterile locus in Brassica
Spontaneous male sterility is an advantageous trait for both producing hybrids and understanding the developmental process of the male reproductive unit in many crops. Lu et al. use a map-based cloning strategy together...
