Abstract
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).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 261-262 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Trends in Genetics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 1998 |
Keywords
- plant
- sex determination
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