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. 2012 Jul 10;22(13):R528-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.003.

Plant reproduction: teaching a new language of love

Mark A Johnson  1
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Plant reproduction: teaching a new language of love

Mark A Johnson. Curr Biol. .
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Species-preferential proteins attract pollen tubes to female gametes in flowering plants. In a new study, Arabidopsis was taught to say "come hither" to maize pollen when it was engineered to express a maize attractant.

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