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Among dioecious species, Melandrium album (2n = 24) (Caryophyllaceae, subfam Dianthoideae) shows a clear-cut correlation between the phenotypic sex and the presence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. The genetic control is by far the most strict among such plant species due to a relatively well characterized male (Y, X) and female (X, X) chromosome system. Thus in normal, 2A XY plants, and also in tetraploids (4A XXXY), the male “determiners” on a single Y chromosome are able to suppress the female influence of the X chromosome(s) alone or in combination with suspected autosomal loci (Westergaard, 1958; van Nigtevecht, 1966).
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Wu, Y., Ye, D., Installé, P., Jacobs, M., Negrutiu, I. (1990). Sex Determination in the Dioecious Melandrium: The in Vitro Culture Approach. In: Nijkamp, H.J.J., Van Der Plas, L.H.W., Van Aartrijk, J. (eds) Progress in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2103-0_36
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