When thinking about plant reproduction you might be forgiven thinking that all the action happens in flowers. Small interference RNA, or siRNA for short, that originated elsewhere in the plant also play a role. In fact, without them pollen are largely not viable. The one exception, at least so scientists thought, where the brassica species. Now a new study shows that they siRNAs as well, only they produce them slightly different.
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Unequal inheritance
Against all odds the dog rose, Rosa caninae, manages to sexually reproduce with an uneven number of chromosomes. German and Czech researchers show in Nature hoe the dog rose manages this.
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