Sex determination in flowering plants: Papaya as a model system

Plant Science

Volumn 217-218, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-62

  Aryal, Rishi ^a,c   Ming, Ray ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dioecy; Flower development; Monoecy; Plant reproduction; Sex chromosomes; Trioecy

Indexed keywords

CARICA; DIOECY; EVOLUTION; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; MONOECY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; TRIOECY;

DIOECY; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; MONOECY; PLANT REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRIOECY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARICA; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 84890892643     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2013.10.018     Document Type: Review

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