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Paternal effects on seed mass in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) - 1 Jan 2011
de Jong T J, Hermans C M, van der Veen-van Wijk K C A M
Abstract excerpt
Who is in control of seed size, and do some fathers sire bigger seeds than others? We used isogenic male-sterile genotypes of the Arabidopsis thaliana accessions Col and Ler. By fertilising flowers side-by-side with either pollen from the same accession ('self-pollination') or pollen from another accession (outcrossing), we compared, on the same mother plant, seed set of flowers that were very similar in resource...
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