Publications by authors named "Fadi Abou-Choucha"
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on the predominant hermaphroditic nature of flowering plants and investigates the poorly understood transition to unisexuality, using melons as a model.
- Researchers identify a spontaneous mutant in melons that shifts from bisexual to unisexual male flowers, linking this change to a mutation affecting the Ethylene Insensitive 2 (CmEIN2) gene.
- The findings suggest that environmental factors can trigger the movement of certain genetic elements, which play a role in both sex determination and fruit shape, highlighting implications for plant adaptation and crop development.
Sex determination evolved to control the development of unisexual flowers. In agriculture, it conditions how plants are cultivated and bred. We investigated how female flowers develop in monoecious cucurbits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrate is a major nutrient and osmoticum for plants. To deal with fluctuating nitrate availability in soils, plants store this nutrient in their vacuoles. Chloride channel a (CLCa), a 2NO3-/1H+ exchanger localized to the vacuole in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), ensures this storage process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding the evolution of sex determination in plants requires the cloning and the characterization of sex determination genes. Monoecy is characterized by the presence of both male and female flowers on the same plant. Andromonoecy is characterized by plants carrying both male and bisexual flowers.
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