Papaya sex change in the works
Saturday, November 7, 2009 - 21:15
in Biology & Nature
The effort could weed out unproductive male and female plants so that farmers could grow only the fruitful hermaphrodites. An effort is underway to perform sex changes on papayas. That's right -- the large, yellowish fruit.
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