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Parental conflict overcome

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In flowering plants, viable seeds result even without two of the mechanisms that normally operate during embryogenesis. This finding illuminates the interplay of male and female factors in the process.

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Figure 1: Plant fertilization and seed development.

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  1. Nir Ohad is in the Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel. niro@tauex.tau.ac.il,

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Ohad, N. Parental conflict overcome. Nature 447, 275–276 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447275a

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