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Herkogamy and its effects on mating patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Luo Yonghai, Widmer Alex
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of mating systems, which exhibit an extraordinary diversity in flowering plants, is of central interest in plant biology. Herkogamy, the spatial separation of sexual organs within flowers, is a widespread floral mechanism that is thought to be an adaptive trait reducing self-pollination in hermaphroditic plants. In contrast with previous studies of herkogamy that focused on plants with relatively...
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