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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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...
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