At long last, how plants make eggs
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 13:42
in Biology & Nature
A long-standing mystery surrounding a fundamental process in plant biology has been solved by a team of scientists at the University of California, Davis. The group's ground-breaking discovery that a plant hormone called auxin is responsible for egg production has several major implications.
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