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Determination of the unequal fate of cotyledons of a one-leaf plant, Monophyllaea.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Apr 1997
Tsukaya H
Abstract excerpt
One-leaf plants, belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, were described for the first time more than 150 years ago. One such unusual plant, Monophyllaea, has only one leaf at maturity. Only one of the two cotyledons grows continuously, without the formation of true leaves, and this feature, known as anisocotyledonous development, has been repeatedly mentioned in textbooks of plant morphology. However, the mechanism...
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