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Science 31 March 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4336, pp. 1465 - 1466
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4336.1465
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Handedness in Duckweed: Double Flowering Fronds Produce Right- and Left-Handed Lineages

ROBERT P. DOSS 1

1 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ornamental Plants Research Laboratory, Western Washington Research and Extension Center, Puyallup 98371

Frond lineages of Lemna perpusilla Torr. (strain 6746) show handedness with respect to frond emergence sequence and flowering that is related to the pocket of origin on a double flowering mother frond. Flower position is a fundamental manifestation of frond asymmetry.

Submitted on August 12, 1977

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