Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Genetic mechanism of alternating sexes in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/walnut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walnut</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> has some parallels to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SexDetermination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SexDetermination</span></a> in humans <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-genetic-mechanism-alternating-sexes-walnut.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-genetic-</span><span class="invisible">mechanism-alternating-sexes-walnut.html</span></a></p><p>Ancient structural variants control sex-specific <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/flowering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flowering</span></a> time morphs in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/walnuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walnuts</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/hickories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hickories</span></a> <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado5578" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.ado5578</span></a></p><p>"A walnut <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tree</span></a> produces <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flowers</span></a> of one sex, then the other in the same season, but trees differ in which one comes first. Individual trees are consistently male-first or female-first in flowering."</p>