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Functional analysis of B and C class floral organ genes in spinach demonstrates their role in sexual dimorphism.
BMC plant biology - 12 Mar 2010
Sather D Noah, Jovanovic Maja, Golenberg Edward M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Evolution of unisexual flowers entails one of the most extreme changes in plant development. Cultivated spinach, Spinacia oleracea L., is uniquely suited for the study of unisexual flower development as it is dioecious and it achieves unisexually by the absence of organ development, rather than by organ abortion or suppression. Male staminate flowers lack fourth whorl primordia and female pistillate...
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