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Transcriptomic heterochrony and completely cleistogamous flower development in the mycoheterotrophic orchid Gastrodia.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2023
Suetsugu Kenji, Fukushima Kenji, Makino Takashi, Ikematsu Shuka, Sakamoto Tomoaki, Kimura Seisuke
Abstract excerpt
Cleistogamy, in which plants can reproduce via self-fertilization within permanently closed flowers, has evolved in > 30 angiosperm lineages; however, consistent with Darwin's doubts about its existence, complete cleistogamy - the production of only cleistogamous flowers - has rarely been recognized. Thus far, the achlorophyllous orchid genus, Gastrodia, is the only known genus with several plausible completely...
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