6 Close, Yet Separate: Patterns of Male and Female Floral Development in Monoecious Species
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 20: Flowering and its Manipulation
II. Specialised Components of Development
Rafael Perl-Treves,
Prem Anand Rajagopalan,
Rafael Perl-Treves
Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorPrem Anand Rajagopalan
Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorRafael Perl-Treves,
Prem Anand Rajagopalan,
Rafael Perl-Treves
Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorPrem Anand Rajagopalan
Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorThis article was originally published in 2006 in Flowering and its Manipulation, Volume 20 (ISBN 9781405128087) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Charles Ainsworth. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introduction
- Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects of Monoecious Plant Development
- How do Unisexual Flowers Develop?
- Concluding Remarks
- Abbreviations
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