Maybe she's NOT the boss: male-female crosstalk during sexual plant reproduction.

Genome Biol

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland.

Published: May 2016

New insights into the molecular dialogue between male and female during sexual plant reproduction show that even plant sex does not work without clear communication.

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