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Science 3 June 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3414, pp. 1673 - 1674
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3414.1673
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Induction of Staminate Flowers on Gynoecious Cucumbers with Gibberellin A3

C. E. Peterson 1 and LaMoine D. Anhder 1

1 Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Staminate flowers induced on gynoecious plants permitted the establishment and increase of inbred lines bearing only pistillate flowers. This method of altering sex expression has practical applications in developing F1 hybrids, and is useful in studying the physiology and genetics of sex expression.


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