date:Aug 07, 2019
An international research team has discovered a gender-determining gene in kiwifruit that could potentially lead to the breeding of hermaphrodite varieties. Self-fertile kiwifruit cultivars could remove the current need for pollen supplementation, saving land and labour costs.
Since only female kiwifruit produce fruit, horticulturists have been looking for ways to find out whether their plant babies are boys or girls - but usually this relies on waiting for them to grow up.
They hope to use th