The Salicaceae, including Here, a rare monoecious genotype of Based on alignments of progeny shotgun DNA sequences to the haplotype‐resolved monoecious 94003 genome assembly and reference male and female genomes, a 1.15 Mb sex‐linked region on Chr15W was confirmed to be absent in monecious plants. Inheritance of this structural variation is responsible for the loss of a male‐suppressing function in what would otherwise be genetic females (ZW), resulting in monoecy (ZWHor WWH), or lethality, if homozygous (WHWH). We present a refined, two‐gene sex determination model for
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- Award ID(s):
- 1832140
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10476477
- Editor(s):
- Stewart, Frank J.
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Society for Microbiology
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Microbiology Resource Announcements
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 11
- ISSN:
- 2576-098X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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