Environmental conditions affect sex expression in monoecious, but not in male and female plants of Urtica dioica

Sexual Plant Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 253-260

  Glawe, Grit A ^a   De Jong, Tom J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Sub )dioecy; Seed sex ratio; Sex determination; Sex expression; Urtica dioica

Indexed keywords

URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 13844256786     PISSN: 09340882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00497-004-0237-5     Document Type: Article

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