Yannick M. Staedler, Peter H. Weston and Peter K. Endress Calycanthaceae, sister to all other Laurales, are the most distinct family of the order in their gynoecium structure (lateral placentation, ...

Abstract Within palms, recent phylogenetic evidence suggests that the free-carpellate (apocarpous) condition that occurs in mature gynoecia of some species represents a derived condition, in contrast ...

Scientists have found that the plant hormone auxin governs the change from cell division at shoot tips to the development of female parts of a flower. Auxin levels are themselves controlled by the ...

The findings, which can be read in Nature Communications, provide an epigenetic explanation for proper formation of the gynoecium, the female reproductive organ of flowering plants. Flowers consist of ...