To be a male or a female flower, a question of ethylene in cucurbits.

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Within the Cucurbitaceae family, most of its species develop unisexual female and male flowers, either on the same plant (monoecy) or on different plants (dioecy). As in other plant families, these two sex morphotypes have evolved from hermaphrodite species; however, many evolutionary events have occurred in cucurbits allowing easy conversion from dioecy to monoecy and vice versa. The variability in sex...

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