date:Aug 07, 2019
is to screen seedlings so they can get rid of the male plants earlier, so they don't have to waste time and water waiting to find out.
The study has also validated the two-mutation model in sex acquisition of plants proposed 40 years ago. Plant Food Research scientists and their research partners in Japan and the US identified a gene called Friendly Boy (FrBy), which is necessary for pollen production and is found naturally in Y chromosomes of male kiwifruit plants. It is the second sex-determ