Plant BiologybioRxiv
An asexual flower of Silene latifolia and Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae promoting its sexual-organ development
H. Kawamoto, K. Yamanaka, A. Koizumi…·S. Kawano
The paper investigates how infection by Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae affects sexual-organ development in an asexual mutant of Silene latifolia, finding that stamen suppression is released but gynoecium suppression is not.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0217329