All the flowers on a individual Wachendorfia paniculata or Barberetta aurea, display either a left-morph or right morph phenotype. (IMAGE)

University of Cape Town - Faculty of Science

All the flowers on a individual Wachendorfia paniculata or Barberetta aurea, display either a left-morph or right morph phenotype.

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A genetic switch determines left–right floral asymmetry in Wachendorfia and Barberetta mirror-image flowers

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Nicola Illing

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