Female and hermaphrodite flowers on a chimeric gynomonoecious Silene vulgaris plant produce offspring with different genders: A case of heteroplasmic sex determination?

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 563-565

  Andersson, Helene ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHIMERA; GENETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HERMAPHRODITISM; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

SILENE LATIFOLIA; SILENE VULGARIS;

EID: 0032702466     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/90.5.563     Document Type: Article

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