Ray Ming, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Ray Ming, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois plant biology professor Ray Ming and his colleagues will find the sex determining regions on the papaya's three sex chromosomes, then use that information to produce a true-breeding hermaphrodite plant.

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Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U of I News Bureau.

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