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Plants Follow Nature Over Nurture During Sex

Caption: This is a maize tassel with anthers. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the July 20, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Kelliher at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Hypoxia Triggers Meiotic Fate Acquisition in Maize."

Credit: Courtesy of Virginia Walbot

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