A shoot shouldn't become a flower too early, but needs some control over when the process happens. A paper in JXB finds the genes responsible.
Tag - reproductive development
Dale Maylea
Flower unisexuality in dioecious date palm
Dioecy has evolved independently several times during the evolution of flowering plants, but knowledge of the mechanisms involved is poor. Phoenix dactylifera is a dioecious species displaying strong dimorphism between...
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