Genetics of Alternating Sexes in Walnuts (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Genetics of Alternating Sexes in Walnuts

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UC Davis graduate student Jeffrey Groh has discovered how walnut trees are able to produce flowers of different sexes at different times in the same season. The genetic mechanism is similar to sex determination in many animals. Pictured, Groh with a California black walnut tree on the UC Davis campus

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Sasha Bakhter, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences

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