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Gender in plants

2. More about why and how plants change sex

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What is the difference between plant sex and plant gender? Why does stress sometimes cause maleness and other times result in femaleness? Do plant hedge mating bets using sex change? This article addresses these and other evolutionary questions about plant gender.

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  1. Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India

    Renee M. Borges

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Borges, R.M. Gender in plants. Reson 3, 30–39 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02838707

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