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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 377, 期 1850, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0210
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Animal sex determination systems; plant sex determination systems; dioecy pathways; dosage compensation; key open questions
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This theme issue presents a series of articles that synthesize and challenge the current understanding of how plants achieve dioecy. The articles discuss a wide range of taxa and overarching topics, providing a comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the fascinating phenomenon of dioecy in plants.
Linnaeus's very first opus, written when he was 22 years old, dealt with the analogy that exists between plants and animals in how they 'propagate their species', and a revised version with a plate depicting the union of male and female Mercurialis annua plants became a foundational text on the sexuality of plants. The question how systems with separate males and females have evolved in sedentary organisms that appear ancestrally bisexual has fascinated biologists ever since. The phenomenon, termed dioecy, has important consequences for plant reproductive success and is of commercial interest since it affects seed quality and fruit production. This theme issue presents a series of articles that synthesize and challenge the current understanding of how plants achieve dioecy. The articles deal with a broad set of taxa, including Coccinia, Ginkgo, Mercurialis, Populus, Rumex and Silene, as well as overarching topics, such as the field's terminology, analogies with animal sex determination systems, evolutionary pathways to dioecy, dosage compensation, and the longevity of the two sexes. In this introduction, we focus on four topics, each addressed by several articles from different angles and with different conclusions. Our highlighting of unclear or controversial issues may help future studies to build on the current understanding and to ask new questions that will expand our knowledge of plant sexual systems.This article is part of the theme issue 'Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in land plants'.
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