Uncovering the Secret Sex Life of Plants (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Uncovering the Secret Sex Life of Plants (3 of 4)

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Cucumber flowers. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Adnane Boualem at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Orsay, France, and colleagues was titled, "A cucurbit androecy gene reveals how unisexual flowers develop and dioecy emerges."

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