KIWIFRUIT: IMPORTANT PROGRESS IN THE BIOLOGY OF FLOWER DIFFERENTIATION

5 November 20195 November 2019 Domenico Ditto

With this publication the firs morphological changes in kiwi fruit flowers have been detected during sex determination. The results will be useful for further researches focosed on genes involved in sex transition in this dioecious species.

Scanning electronic micrographs of partially dissected kiwi flower.

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Sex change in kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis Planch.): a developmental framework for the bisexual to unisexual floral transitino. Elisabetta Caporali, Raffaele Testolin, Simon Pierce, Alberto Spada (2019). Plant Reproduction, 32(3):323-330. DOI: 10.1007/s00497-019-00373-w