Fragrance addition improves visitation by honeybees and fruit quality in kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa).
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DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.11153
Abstract: BACKGROUND Kiwifruit is an important horticultural crop all over the world with an important development in Argentina. This dioecious crop presents a short blooming period with nectarless flowers, and its fruit production depends on cross-pollination.… read more here.
Keywords: female flowers; fruit quality; fragrance; kiwifruit ... See more keywords
Sex determination: Polyploid paternity
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DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2017.7
Abstract: Sex is complicated. A number of different sexual systems have evolved, often multiple times, in different clades of life, based on an equally diverse array of genetic mechanisms. For diploid organisms, the use of sex… read more here.
Keywords: male female; female flowers; sex determination; determination polyploid ... See more keywords
Dimorphic flowers modify the visitation order of pollinators from male to female flowers
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66525-5
Abstract: Sexual dimorphism is a pervasive form of variation within species. Understanding how and why sexual dimorphism evolves would contribute to elucidating the mechanisms underlying the diversification of traits. In flowering plants, pollinators are considered a… read more here.
Keywords: sexual dimorphism; female flowers; male female; order pollinators ... See more keywords
Strongly unbalanced gender attractiveness in a dioecious mass flowering tropical tree pollinated by stingless bees.
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DOI: 10.1111/plb.13398
Abstract: In dioecious, bee-pollinated tree species, male and female flowers offer different resources. It is unclear how this unbalanced quantity and quality of floral resources affects flower visits and pollen transfer to female flowers. We asked,… read more here.
Keywords: mass flowering; strongly unbalanced; tree; gender ... See more keywords
Comparative transcript profiling explores differentially expressed genes associated with sexual phenotype in kiwifruit
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180542
Abstract: Background Kiwifruit is a perennial, deciduous and functionally dioecious plant. However, very little is known about the whole-genome molecular mechanisms contributing to distinct sexual phenotypes. To gain a global view of genes differentially expressed between… read more here.
Keywords: male female; female flowers; gene expression; kiwifruit ... See more keywords
A Model of Hormonal Regulation of Stamen Abortion during Pre-Meiosis of Litsea cubeba
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DOI: 10.3390/genes11010048
Abstract: Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers., a popular essential oil plant, is a dioecious species with degenerative sexual organs in both male and female individuals. Yet, the mechanism of degenerative organs development in male and female flowers… read more here.
Keywords: abortion; litsea cubeba; female flowers; pre meiosis ... See more keywords
The Patterns of Male and Female Flowers in Flowering Stage May Not Be Optimal Resource Allocation for Fruit and Seed Growth
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DOI: 10.3390/plants10122819
Abstract: Changes in the proportions of male and female flowers in monoecious plants in response to external environmental conditions are directly related to the reproductive fitness of plants. The monoecious cucumber (Cucumber sativus) plant was used… read more here.
Keywords: female flowers; fruit; male female; flowers flowering ... See more keywords
Conspecific Pollen on Honey Bees and a Chrysomelid Beetle Species Visiting Female Flowers on Nolina microcarpa (Asparagaceae)
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DOI: 10.3398/064.078.0204
Abstract: Abstract. Nolina microcarpa (Asparagaceae) is a dioecious monocot shrub found in Arizona, New Mexico, and northern and central Mexico. Leaf rosettes of the species grow in colonies that produce tall inflorescences of small male or… read more here.
Keywords: insects; microcarpa asparagaceae; female flowers; nolina microcarpa ... See more keywords