TY - JOUR
T1 - Lily or billy- y the difference?
AU - Charlesworth, Deborah
AU - Gilmartin, Philip M.
PY - 1998/7/1
Y1 - 1998/7/1
N2 - Most flowering plant species are either hermaphroditic, with flowers that produce both male and female gametes, or monoecious, bearing unisexual flowers of both sexes (see Table 1 for some examples). The meeting highlighted recent research on the variety of plant sex-determination and sex chromosomes. Some dioecious plants (species with separate unisexual plants) have no cytologically recognizable sex chromosomes but, like many animals, many have X/Y systems with a single male-determining Y chromosomes (see Table 1). Variants such as X/Y1/Y2, Z/W, and X-autosome balance systems also occur (John Parker, Cambridge Univ. Botanic Garden).
AB - Most flowering plant species are either hermaphroditic, with flowers that produce both male and female gametes, or monoecious, bearing unisexual flowers of both sexes (see Table 1 for some examples). The meeting highlighted recent research on the variety of plant sex-determination and sex chromosomes. Some dioecious plants (species with separate unisexual plants) have no cytologically recognizable sex chromosomes but, like many animals, many have X/Y systems with a single male-determining Y chromosomes (see Table 1). Variants such as X/Y1/Y2, Z/W, and X-autosome balance systems also occur (John Parker, Cambridge Univ. Botanic Garden).
KW - plant
KW - sex determination
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U2 - 10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01504-2
DO - 10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01504-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031852257
VL - 14
SP - 261
EP - 262
JO - Trends in Genetics
JF - Trends in Genetics
SN - 0168-9525
IS - 7
ER -